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Very interesting article, to put in relation with the "The web is dead" recent article from Chris Andersson (Wired). Yes , web in not the only future of apps (SaaS), apparentlly there is a new model of apps, for mobile and perhaps for other devices also, who are not web interfaces, but based on the internet. So internet is everywhere, but UI are not only web interfaces as we could have predict it few years ago...

I like what box.net is doing, a social online file manager :)

Very important for a better integration with in house IT systems. So it is now possible to develop in house applications running like marketplace apps. Great, and we have the skills to do it!

there is a few errors on the features, the guy is not updated on new changes in both Google Apps and Office 365, but it is interesting.

Competition in the cloud file management will be hard. Dropbox, Box, Drive, Skydrive, .... great actors, with a lot of interesting features. I think Box missed the opportunity to have a great Google Apps integration, they didn't follow our suggestions, implementing Google Docs is a very odd way, and Google now has done with Drive what Box could have done years before. So for most of our customers, it's better to use Drive than Box, even if Box features are by themselves more interesting. But with no correct integration of Google Docs, this doesn't allow to use thme in the google Apps environment.

In case you did not see it: Someone kindly posted this spreadsheet comparing Google Apps to Microsoft's BPOS.

Interesting feedbacks about Google Apps' marketplace.

Un compte Exchange de plus qui migre vers Google Apps pour sa messagerie. 200 serveurs exchange supprimés. La collaboration viendra après.

We are using SocialWok from inception, it is a really good social layer for Google Apps. It works fine and is very useful to create conversations around you documents.

Un très bon exemple de succès de déploiement Google Apps, complémentaire de ce que Kimind a fait chez Valeo et que nous faisons chez de nombreux comptes actuellement.

About the next competitor of Google Apps by Microsoft itself!

Is it the only way Microsoft has to fight Google Apps? ;)

Interesting article about how new iPad display will change the game in business apps

Microsoft seems to be very afraid of Google Apps. Here is one of the videos they are launching to try to demonstrate why to stay with Microsoft instead to go to Google. The problem is that each of their argument can be reversed! And that in this video they are defending a very traditional approach of computing, even if they could embrace the new one...

A very important information, because if it becomes possible for flash developers to translate their flash apps into iPhone apps, the market will explode completely.

I think this is Adobe trying to keep Flash relevant while the world is going to move to HTML5 and H.264. Flash is a proprietary format that does not belong on the web. It has been successful because it has been perceived as a standard, and a lot of people thought that they "had" to support it. More people are now realizing that it does not have to be that way, that Flash is buggy, heavy on CPU and bandwidth, expensive, and insecure, and are moving away from it. The iPhone and soon the iPad are just helping them move faster.

It says here that "...contracts between Google and its customers guarantee user privacy." Do we have a copy of the contract or the end user agreement? There will be more people concerned about that and I would like to see what it says.

terms and conditions: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/user_terms.html and privacy policy: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/user_privacy.html the first time you register, you have also validated global terms and conditions for Google Apps usage