Jon Husband is analysing in detail the new BlueKiwi offer, and how it is a real tool to help changing usages within corporations. He demonstrated that this is a new layer to information systems, not only a complement to any existing IBM or Lotus infrastructure, which is the major problem for large accounts to integrate this new technologies.
Good news about this is that pure players of the internet are improving their security dramatically. This is very good, and a necessary step for everybody. It's why also Google is so much secure than the others, they have taken already all this actions few years ago, because fully of the security problems.
Think you know what work might look like in the future? Zoho's evangelist (and guy who setup their data center) Raju Vegesna shows me how he can gather data from the Internet, process it in a spreadsheet, and build a report -- all within minutes using Zoho's free services. Oh, and all while he could be collaborating with coworkers from around the world on live data. This is a new way to work and it's pretty exciting to think about how cloud-based technologies like Zoho's suite of applications will change how we'll work
That could be a useful way of helping people migrate, but it can also just let them keep the same bad habits and just work the same way, only their documents are now stored in a different server.
Google Docs may soon enable live, simultaneous editing of Microsoft Office documents thanks to the recent acquisition of DocVerse. The teams have a shared vision of enabling easy collaboration for Office users, and may end up signing up a few new businesses to Google Apps in the process.
Google's pitch to CIOs, with some good points about their direction. The first comment does not look very good, but I understand that these things are sometimes planted by the competition.