Microsoft Partners Wary Of Salesforce-Google CRM
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| Salesforce.com and Google on Monday unveiled a new offering that marries
| office productivity apps with CRM and looks like a pre-emptive strike against
| Microsoft's upcoming Dynamics CRM Live service.
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http://www.crn.com/software/207200578
Google tackles Microsoft with office
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| BY taking its most emphatic step so far towards a future in which web
| services supplant most of today's software, Google last week sent its
| clearest signal yet to Silicon Valley and Wall Street about where it is
| heading.
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http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23539878-5013038,00.html
Recent:
Marc Benioff taunts the awakened dinosaurs
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| Following is part of the exchange, where I asked Benioff for his thoughts on
| Microsoft. He has called Microsoft a dinosaur, incapable of innovation, and a
| monopolist.
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http://www.news.com/8301-13953_3-9895987-80.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Yahoogle? Microspace? It makes Google look good
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| "We view Google as a winner," said Stanford Group analysts Clayton Moran and
| Frederick Moran in a report. They believe the new options have the potential
| to slow Microsoft's acquisition attempt, complicate already formidable
| integration challenges by Google rivals, and increase Google's share of the
| search market if Yahoo relies on it.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9916412-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Google Apps' challenge to Microsoft Office
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| "Blended or intermittent access to the network is going to make Google Docs
| more feasible for IT managers than it was before," said David Mitchell,
| senior vice-president of IT Research at Ovum.
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http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/04/03/230119/google-apps-challenge-to-microsoft-office.htm
Is the ride getting bumpy for Microsoft Office?
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| Life in the world of Office Suites is getting into the fast lane with speed
| that is simply overwhelming. With newer players flirting with newer
| technologies and the Open Source getting collaborative like never before the
| world of Office Suites is seeing many changes. The undisputable market
| leader is Microsoft Office with almost 85% share but noteworthy is Sun
| Microsystems like yesteryears isn't the only challenger. Google Docs,
| ThinkFree.com, Zoho.com recently launched InstaColl.com's Live-Documents.com
| are just few of the suites challenging Microsoft's cash cow Microsoft Office.
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http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=16cae1d6-b699-480b-89fd-05d609238d19&ParentID=d08c09e8-1181-41a3-9e60-5cfeef8cd5fb&MatchID1=4674&TeamID1=4&TeamID2=8&MatchType1=1&SeriesID1=1177&PrimaryID=4674&Headline=Is+the+ride+getting+bumpy+for+Microsoft+Office%3f
http://tinyurl.com/6rdp2n
Google Docs offline illustrates open source maturity
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| Zoho has also sought to differentiate itself by quickly releasing a mobile
| edition of its software. But rather than focusing on Zoho’s efforts, Vembu
| wanted to emphasize what Google’s open source decision means to the
| development process.
|
| “It is sometimes hard to believe that the entire space is just over 2 years
| old, considering how far things have come. This pace will continue, even
| intensify, over the next few months.”
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2230
Google mounts fresh assault on Microsoft Word
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| The new offline capability of Google's word processor brings it into direct
| competition with Microsoft Word
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http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3660445.ece
Google Docs Neutralizes Microsoft Office With Offline Access
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| Google Docs' new offline access feature neutralizes a big advantage of
| Microsoft's Office old school desktop centric productivity suite, according
| to solution providers.
|
| By taking a page out of the Microsoft playbook and offering offline acess,
| Google has in one fell swoop opened the door for Google Docs to be embraced
| by a new group of office productivity workers, said Tyler Dikman, the CEO of
| Cooltronics, a Tampa, Fla. solution provider.
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http://www.crn.com/software/207001111
Google brings offline access to Docs and Apps
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| Gears is currently supported in Internet Explorer 6 and above and Firefox 1.5
| and above for Windows XP and Vista, according to Google. Firefox 1.5 and
| above is also supported on Mac OS X 10.2 and above and Linux.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=211699424&rid=-50
Google hopes Apps will help against Microsoft
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| "A lot of the market has been lulled into thinking that Microsoft was the
| only product for most anything," Girouard said. "In reality, I think our
| products make a lot more sense, especially when you're working in a team
| environment."
|
| [...]
|
| Genentech, Cardinal Health and Proctor & Gamble are among the large companies
| testing the service.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/29/BUNVVK3BR.DTL&type=tech
CIA enlists Google's help for spy work
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| US intelligence agencies are using Google's technology to help its agents
| share information about their suspects
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http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3652494.ece
Microsoft caves, in part, to online computing
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| So it is with great pleasure that the following observation...
|
| "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you
| win," attributed to Mahatma Gandi is also true about high tech vendors and
| how they react to upstart competition.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/realitycheck/archives/2008/03/microsoft_caves.html?source=rss
Related:
Google manager: Google Apps replaced Microsoft Office at 100,000 businesses
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| Google's newly released online productivity suite Google Apps has
| already replaced Microsoft Office at more than 100,000 small to
| medium enterprises and has been deployed at two of the largest
| companies in the world, according to the search leader's
| enterprise product boss.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/9889/53/
Dumping Office for Google Apps
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| Google has a friend in Disney, and that could leave Microsoft screaming
| like a jilted lover.
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http://videos.webpronews.com/2007/02/07/dumping-office-for-google-apps/
FAA May Ditch Microsoft's Windows Vista And Office For Google And Linux Combo
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| Bowen said he's in talks with the aviation safety agency's main
| hardware supplier, Dell Computer, to determine if it could
| deliver Linux-based computers capable of accessing Google
| Apps through a non-Microsoft browser once the FAA's XP-based
| computers pass their shelf life.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197800480
Can Google and Linux Topple Microsoft?
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| The story had a certain flair. In early March, the chief information
| officer of the Federal Aviation Administration, David Bowen, was
| reportedly considering forsaking Microsoft Windows and Office in
| favor of the Linux operating system and the Web-based Google Apps
| Premium office suite.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/57534.html
Microsoft's Last Big Beat: Internet Domination or Death
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| What can $44.6B USD mean? Well, for Microsoft (MSFT) it may mean the cost of
| survival.
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http://seekingalpha.com/article/63876-microsoft-s-last-big-beat-internet-domination-or-death?source=yahoo
Apps vs. Office: Google Ups the Ante
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| So apparently do some 100,000 small businesses and organizations that use
| Google's productivity and communications software. Even larger corporations,
| such as General Electric and Procter & Gamble , are becoming adherents.
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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2007/tc20070716_231231.htm?campaign_id=yhoo
Three Minutes With Google's Apps Manager
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| This move, which puts it in direct competition with software
| heavyweights like Microsoft, builds on Google's first steps as
| an enterprise vendor years ago when it launched its firs
| enterprise search product.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070526/tc_pcworld/132241
Google Apps Catches Flak
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| Microsoft is launching an anti-Google propaganda campaign.
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http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2007/09/11/google-apps-catches-flak/?mod=yahoo_hs
Microsoft Retaliates With 10 Reasons Not To Use Google Apps
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| This, of course, brought Google even closer to rivaling Microsoft's Office
| suite, which has now spurred a reaction from the Redmond software giant.
|
| No, its not new software or updates for the popular productivity suite, but
| rather Microsoft's own reasoning on why businesses should NOT use Google
| Apps.
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http://www.profy.com/2007/09/11/microsoft-retaliates-with-10-reasons-not-to-use-google-apps/
Will Google Loosen Microsoft's Grip on Large Enterprise?
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| It’s got to be frustrating to sit in Redmond today and watch the world go by
| without having much of a grip on it anymore.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070910/46884_id.html?.v=1
Out of the office
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| Nobody's better at defending its turf than Microsoft of course, so this will
| not be a quick or easy war.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/commentary-watch-out-microsoft-google/story.aspx?guid=%7BD0EF1345-0BC4-459A-A780-8F861CEEAE40%7D&siteid=yhoof
http://tinyurl.com/2lxuct
Salesforce says it's beating, mirroring Microsoft
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| While dismissing Microsoft's announced move into Salesforce's
| on-demand software turf, Benioff also said that his firm is akin
| to Microsoft back when that company's marquee product was the
| DOS operating system.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/salesforce-says-its-beating-mirroring/story.aspx?guid=%7BA7713533%2D8E00%2D4506%2DA0EA%2D525F1935AAA7%7D&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo
http://tinyurl.com/3d72ov
Google, Salesforce.com partner on Web site
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| Salesforce.com and Google launched a Web site on Tuesday that is designed
| to allow the online customer relationship management software maker to
| act as a reseller for Google's AdWords.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6188670.html
Salesforce get another Open Source Plug-in
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| Jasper4Salesforce delivers easy access to advanced reporting by building
| on top of the AppExchange on-demand platform to integrate the one of the
| more popular open source reporting solution into the Salesforce suite
| of applications.
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http://opensourceblog.itproportal.com/?p=181
JasperSoft's Market-Leading Open Source Reporting Solution Now Available On
salesforce.com's AppExchange
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| "Jasper4Salesforce provides customers with a market-leading open
| source business intelligence solution that's been proven in tens of
| thousands of deployments."
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http://www.jaspersoft.com/nw_press_jaspersoft_appexchange.html
Marketing hype aside, Apex is Salesforce.com's response to open source.
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| Nick thinks it's big news, and I do, too. It's big because it offers
| customers a way to customize hosted applications, rather than running
| them "as is." The myth has been that companies don't want to customize
| software. The reality is that they emphatically do. Salesforce.com's
| traditional customer base (SMEs) did not. Its big Fortune 500
| companies definitely do.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2006/10/salesforcecom_g.html
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