Google releasing Office-like package
by Matt Craven
August 28, 2006
MSNBC is reporting that Google will release a package for offices this Monday.
The package will be called Google Apps for Your Domain and consist of GMail, Google Calendar, GTalk, and Page Creator.
The article states that Google will launch a more robust paid version of Google Apps later this year.
Matt Craven
Matt Craven is the former editor & publisher of The Blog Herald. Currently, Matt is the co-founder of Bryghtpath LLC, a consulting practice located in Woodbury, Minnesota. Matt's presently looking for new blogging gigs. Ping him at matt (at) bryghtpath dot com. You can follow him on Twitter.
I would hardly call this a MS Office like package. It has no Office-like Applications such as Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Access, Publisher, etc. except for Gmail which has only a limited subset of client capabilities of MS Outlook.
All you could call this is a repackaging of already existing Google web apps. Interestingly, this “Office-like” package is missing the Google apps that would make it more Office-like, such as Writely and Google Spreadsheet.