Category Archives: Business and the Enterprise

“Did Google just make me look like an idiot?”

Posted on August 17, 2008 by paulwalk

Commenting on the Google Apps outage last week, John Proffitt, IT services director at APTI, an Alaskan public TV station, said: “It was constant troubleshooting, testing, research, posting to the Google Apps forums and so on. Plus there’s the emotional … Continue reading →

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“The coolest thing to do with your data will be thought of by someone else”

Posted on July 23, 2007 by paulwalk

I came across this quote: The coolest thing to do with your data will be thought of by someone else attributed to Rufus Pollack, in a in a post on the Talis blog, Nodalities. Absolutely, couldn’t agree more. The point … Continue reading →

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Software as a service – Google and the enterprise

Posted on March 7, 2007 by paulwalk

A short report from Gartner reckons that the newest Google Apps Premier Edition is still not ready for prime-time in the enterprise, but that it is close, likely to evolve at “internet speed” and, crucially, ahead of the competition. The … Continue reading →

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