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Thats why MS might win this one.
aktazdevil 14th Nov 2009
And What Happend if they have one of their Servers (google) IN HOUSE? - TheCableGuyNY

Because they wont - end of story. MS however is already providing that with Office 2010 you buy one corporate license you get both a desktop and a SaaS model. So yes you can host inside your own company Office 2010 SaaS.

I doubt very much you will get the same offer from google any time soon. If you do great. But I doubt it very much - kind of eats at their core biz and ultimately opens up their dirty little secrets to prying eyes 8).

Ultimately this claim that internal hosted stuff exchange, office (huh?), file storage experience more breakdowns that say google is full of it or works in some 10-50 user shop who cant afford to invest in enterprise gear.

Lets say you have 5000 workers. They all need email. With google thats ummm 250K/yr. I've set up a reliable, redundant exchange system with awesome fiber channel storage + all licensing for say $500k. Now lets see by the time year 3 rolls around everythings probably good for 2 more years and I've not only hit the break-even point but I've actually written down my initial outlay by half. Year 4, written down to -0- cost. Add in labor maybe 120K/yr - still in a win by year 5. How about year 6 and 7...

Ultimately when the "fad" fades and people start looking at the books again not what looks good on the front page of a trash rag like zdnet then you might not see the mass defection to google that everyone envisions. All MS would have to do is say cut the price by 25% of the licensing (which they do and more for large account like 90% reduction) and in the end you have less reason.

We'll see but the math still doesnt work out.
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