• Google Apps isn’t about CIOs | Education IT | ZDNet.com

  • If you’re in a heavily regulated industry you’re not going to be emailing Google’s helpdesk trying to track a 2006 email to satisfy a Sarbanes-Oxley requirement.

    Going on to quote Microsoft’s Kevin Turner,

    Customers don’t want 100 percent of every piece of data for every application managed in the Cloud. They simply don’t.

  • Relative to the sorts of companies about which Larry is talking, my district is quite small. If it was a company, it would have less than 2500 employees (assuming that students were employees, given that they have IT needs just like an employee in a corporation might). The 1.75 million businesses that Google says are switching to Apps, however, are a lot more like my organization than Fortune 500 companies who worry about things like Sarbanes-Oxley.
  • ’m the closest thing my organization has to a CIO; many of those 1.75 million businesses don’t even have a geeky blogger running the IT show, much less a Chief Information Officer. They certainly don’t have the resources to manage Exchange servers and host and manage the sorts of tools that Google Apps can provide in a turnkey solution.
  • Google Apps may some day break into very large-scale enterprises. Good for them. Whatever. I’m far more concerned about enabling communication and collaboration in a really cost-effective way for my users that is also easy for me, easy for the users, and easy for my very limited tech support staff.
  • If I’m on the Mom-and-Pop to SMB (including most school districts) spectrum, then Apps starts looking a lot less worrisome and a lot more attractive.

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