Even Googlers Can’t Rely On Google Apps?
InfoWorld has an article about a study by a consulting firm that says Google Apps isn’t the right move for any sort of decent sized mature business, that it better fits smaller businesses with very limited needs. Bad enough to have in the press, no doubt, but then there’s this:
Even at Google’s offices, Apps is used internally only as a collaboration add-on to Microsoft Office, the report says.
It never sounds good when your employees are using your competitor’s product, not your own, because your product has a number of glaring limitations that limit its use in major corporations. How can Google expect any business even a tenth the size of Google to use Google Apps or Google Docs if they don’t use it themselves?
Some of the limitations the report lists:
– Documents: “Google Docs does not support a table of contents, headers, footers, automatic creation of footnotes or end […]
Original post by Nathan Weinberg