[inam]

"It all spells trouble for MS in the medium term"

Only if Google increases their level of support. I work at a large business and we spoke with both Google and Microsoft. Though I'm a Google fanboy, I'll admit that the level of support from Microsoft is currently much better than Google. Microsoft's cost of implementation was also lower.

[doron]

The larger the business gets the more of a concern bandwidth becomes. All web based applications suffer from this problem, the very high cost of bandwidth in the US.

Without very competitive high bandwidth costs, i just don't see how business software, much less, enterprise software, could ever really be worth the investment on the web.

[BvS]

Could you elaborate how/why Microsoft's implementation was cheaper?

[inam]

Perhaps I should have said I work for a large educational institution. Microsoft was free and Google was going to cost around $200k.

[ditojim]

Google Apps for EDU is free.

[BvS]

That's what I thought or are the 200k for training people who have been used to MS Office etc.?