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Google/LimitNone Webinar Thursday, May 24

Please join us on Thursday, May 24. You can sign up here.

Date and Time:

Thursday, May 24, 2007 11:00 am
Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -07:00, San Francisco)

May 24, 2007 1:00 pm
Central Daylight Time (GMT -05:00, Chicago)

May 24, 2007 2:00 pm
Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -04:00, New York)

May 24, 2007 7:00 pm
GMT Daylight Time (GMT +01:00, London)

Duration: 1 hour

Description:
LimitNone’s gMOVE is an instant migration utility for moving your Outlook calendars, email and contacts to Google. You simply select which Outlook folders you want to migrate and the date range to be processed. gMOVE will automatically convert your Outlook folder structure into Google labels so it will be easy for you to find what you are looking for after the migration. gMOVE will also map your recurring calendar events from Outlook’s parameters to Google’s events implementation.

Once you’ve migrated to Google Apps, Limit None’s gSHARE allows you to combine the functional depth of Excel with the collaborative power of Google Spreadsheets. For Excel users, gSHARE offers instant, federated spreadsheet collaboration without the need for a server, expensive software, and costly support services. It does this by providing the ability to split an Excel spreadsheet into multiple Google sub-spreadsheets, each with its own set of collaborators. For Google Spreadsheet users, gSHARE provides the ability to consolidate multiple Google spreadsheets into a single Excel spreadsheet, thereby making it possible to supplement Google functionality without giving up collaboration. It also provides a solution to the problem of large Google spreadsheets. In addition, gSHARE adds simple workflow to Google spreadsheets. The Excel user can automatically update users calendars to tell them when their Google spreadsheets need to be updated for consolidation.

Blodget: Google Apps as disrupter

Henry Blodget recently had a very interesting post about Google Apps as a classic disruptive technology:

“… Google’s current offerings–Gmail, Docs & Spreadsheets, etc.–bear all the markings of a classic disruptive technology. As Harvard professor Clayton Christensen observed, disruption begins when a dominant market leader has built so so much functionality into its core products that it has begun to over-serve its core customers. Some of these customers, realizing that a simpler, cheaper product will do, abandon the old technology. At first, this does not concern the incumbent, as it maintains a chokehold on the highest margin business–the high-end customers who need most of that complicated functionality and support. But, gradually, as the lower end product gets better, and the incumbent is forced to migrate to even more complex and expensive solutions, more of the overall customer base defects. And, then, voila, one day the incumbent wakes up and discovers that it is DEC, Sears, or AOL…and by then it’s far too late to do anything about it.

From a long-term perspective, Google’s initial offerings look mighty disruptive. And although Microsoft will no doubt assert until it’s blue in the face that it has long since gotten Google religion and is already adapting all of its products for web-based delivery, it will likely find this easier to say than do–if only because each new free or low-priced subscription seat of a web-based Office won’t immediately drop a couple of hundred dollars to the bottom line.”