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GoogleApps and Gmail have had how many hours of downtime so far in 2009?

My count is there have been 90 some hours of downtime for the two services combined this year...all during normal work hours!]]> Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:57:01 -0500
GoogleApps and Gmail have had how many hours of downtime so far in 2009?

My count is there have been 90 some hours of downtime for the two services combined this year...all during normal work hours!]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/167288-2-potential-revenue-sources-for-googles-next-earnings-jump?source=feed#comment-720734 720734
The one trick pony is still waaaaaaay off the all-time high!]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:31:23 -0400
The one trick pony is still waaaaaaay off the all-time high!]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/167221-google-expands-going-google-ad-campaign-worldwide?source=feed#comment-720328 720328
You are the dumbest rock today. Below is a comment from GOOGLE on the REAL numbers surrounding GoogleApps. The fact is you have bought into the LIES and DISTORTION that Dave Giroud (Head of Google Enterprise) has been perpetuating for two years.

BOSTON - Google Inc's efforts to persuade businesses to buy its email services suffered a setback this week after a highly publicized outage shut down accounts of millions of corporate customers for almost two hours.

The outage -- one of several in the past year -- underscored fears that Google's email, still lagging Yahoo Inc's in market share -- is not stable or reliable enough for corporate users.

The Internet giant apologized for the problem, pledged its best to prevent a recurrence of the problem, explained what went wrong and added three days to year-long subscriptions to its corporate Google Apps email service, which costs $50 per-user-per-year.

"The giveback in credit in any email situation is always bitter money. Everybody would always rather have uptime than a giveback," said analyst Matt Cain of market research firm Gartner Inc.

That may not be enough to compensate for the bad publicity and ill will created by the incident, which was widely covered in the press. It could hamper efforts to persuade businesses to abandon technology from Microsoft Corp and International Business Machines Corp that handle hundreds of millions of email accounts.

"This is bad news for Google. Email is a critical tool and outages are unacceptable," said Nucleus Research analyst Rebecca Wettemann.

Google hopes to eventually derive a steady revenue stream from corporate users, as growth in its leading online advertising business begins to show signs of slowing.

Known for Internet search ads that generate billions of dollars in annual revenue, it has spent more than 2-1/2 years marketing Google Apps, which includes email as well as calendars, a word processor and other Web-based software.

LIMITED SUCCESS

The effort has so far met with limited success.

Google spokesman Andrew Kovacs said the number of paid subscriptions numbers "in the hundreds of thousands." The vast majority of Gmail's 15 million business users use a free version of the service.

Gartner's Cain said Google has only started to gain traction in recent months as it has added key features that businesses demanded. They included support for Research in Motion's BlackBerry devices and letting users delegate use of their email and calendar to another person.

One of the biggest stumbling blocks had been that Google used "beta" to describe the service until July. Cain said that raised concerns that the product was not ready for prime time.

Analysts said that Google has been slow to persuade businesses to pay for the service because it is not easy to convince customers they are getting a premium service.

"Once somebody has gotten into the habit of getting something for free, they expect more for free," said Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry.

"Google is having a tough time changing people's habits."
Tuesday's outage reinforced those perceptions because paying customers suffered the same as free users. Google Apps promises that it will provide them more reliable service, giving special protection to their data.

"In this case we weren't able to do that, and they were impacted," Kovacs said.]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:22:16 -0400
You are the dumbest rock today. Below is a comment from GOOGLE on the REAL numbers surrounding GoogleApps. The fact is you have bought into the LIES and DISTORTION that Dave Giroud (Head of Google Enterprise) has been perpetuating for two years.

BOSTON - Google Inc's efforts to persuade businesses to buy its email services suffered a setback this week after a highly publicized outage shut down accounts of millions of corporate customers for almost two hours.

The outage -- one of several in the past year -- underscored fears that Google's email, still lagging Yahoo Inc's in market share -- is not stable or reliable enough for corporate users.

The Internet giant apologized for the problem, pledged its best to prevent a recurrence of the problem, explained what went wrong and added three days to year-long subscriptions to its corporate Google Apps email service, which costs $50 per-user-per-year.

"The giveback in credit in any email situation is always bitter money. Everybody would always rather have uptime than a giveback," said analyst Matt Cain of market research firm Gartner Inc.

That may not be enough to compensate for the bad publicity and ill will created by the incident, which was widely covered in the press. It could hamper efforts to persuade businesses to abandon technology from Microsoft Corp and International Business Machines Corp that handle hundreds of millions of email accounts.

"This is bad news for Google. Email is a critical tool and outages are unacceptable," said Nucleus Research analyst Rebecca Wettemann.

Google hopes to eventually derive a steady revenue stream from corporate users, as growth in its leading online advertising business begins to show signs of slowing.

Known for Internet search ads that generate billions of dollars in annual revenue, it has spent more than 2-1/2 years marketing Google Apps, which includes email as well as calendars, a word processor and other Web-based software.

LIMITED SUCCESS

The effort has so far met with limited success.

Google spokesman Andrew Kovacs said the number of paid subscriptions numbers "in the hundreds of thousands." The vast majority of Gmail's 15 million business users use a free version of the service.

Gartner's Cain said Google has only started to gain traction in recent months as it has added key features that businesses demanded. They included support for Research in Motion's BlackBerry devices and letting users delegate use of their email and calendar to another person.

One of the biggest stumbling blocks had been that Google used "beta" to describe the service until July. Cain said that raised concerns that the product was not ready for prime time.

Analysts said that Google has been slow to persuade businesses to pay for the service because it is not easy to convince customers they are getting a premium service.

"Once somebody has gotten into the habit of getting something for free, they expect more for free," said Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry.

"Google is having a tough time changing people's habits."
Tuesday's outage reinforced those perceptions because paying customers suffered the same as free users. Google Apps promises that it will provide them more reliable service, giving special protection to their data.

"In this case we weren't able to do that, and they were impacted," Kovacs said.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/165762-settling-the-google-book-debate?source=feed#comment-711190 711190 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:49:58 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/165445-google-wave-of-the-future?source=feed#comment-708246 708246 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:30:08 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/165204-why-apple-should-start-wooing-verizon-like-google?source=feed#comment-706644 706644 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:23:02 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/164521-ibm-targets-google-apps-in-the-enterprise?source=feed#comment-700212 700212
Jeepers creepers, if you ask 1000 random people what business GOOGLE is in, zero of those people would say business applications.]]> Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:14:29 -0400
Jeepers creepers, if you ask 1000 random people what business GOOGLE is in, zero of those people would say business applications.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/163972-why-google-needs-to-update-its-user-protection-policies?source=feed#comment-696564 696564 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:21:43 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/163091-can-google-get-the-book-deal-done?source=feed#comment-688646 688646
Poor Poor putty cat. Screw Google and their collective quest for global domination of all aspects of our lives!]]> Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:46:59 -0400
Poor Poor putty cat. Screw Google and their collective quest for global domination of all aspects of our lives!]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/161897-the-perils-of-googling?source=feed#comment-680379 680379 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:59:45 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/158295-google-headed-for-a-drop?source=feed#comment-646788 646788
The best days for GOOG investors are in the rear view mirror.]]> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:10:36 -0400
The best days for GOOG investors are in the rear view mirror.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/141276-google-advances-further-into-microsoft-s-territory?source=feed#comment-531454 531454
Google will never compensate a customer for loss of data due to Google problems/issues/errors. Ever!

Google Apps has the same SLA.

Any business doing business with Google is taking one hell of a risk allowing their data to reside on a server where the vendor will never compensate a customer for loss of data due to Google problems.]]> Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:30:57 -0400
Google will never compensate a customer for loss of data due to Google problems/issues/errors. Ever!

Google Apps has the same SLA.

Any business doing business with Google is taking one hell of a risk allowing their data to reside on a server where the vendor will never compensate a customer for loss of data due to Google problems.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/137500-google-adds-30-000-app-users-in-biggest-enterprise-deal-to-date?source=feed#comment-503269 503269
Supposedly, one million businesses using Google Apps.

Supposedly, ten million people using Google Apps.

According to Google's own numbers, there are tons of ten person firms using Google Apps.

99% of those firms use the FREE version of Google Apps.

I guarantee that Valeo didn't pay anything close to $50 per user per year.

Why can't Google get ALL the FREE users to pay the paltry $50 per user per year?

Google Apps has zero value as FREE whomps on PAID anyday!]]> Thu, 14 May 2009 07:18:34 -0400
Supposedly, one million businesses using Google Apps.

Supposedly, ten million people using Google Apps.

According to Google's own numbers, there are tons of ten person firms using Google Apps.

99% of those firms use the FREE version of Google Apps.

I guarantee that Valeo didn't pay anything close to $50 per user per year.

Why can't Google get ALL the FREE users to pay the paltry $50 per user per year?

Google Apps has zero value as FREE whomps on PAID anyday!]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/121723-microsoft-vs-google-battle-of-epic-proportions?source=feed#comment-396625 396625
GoogleApps has less than 150K paid users and that number doesn't get ANYONE on ANY software radar screen!

No serious business uses a free service for a mission critical business application.

Also, businesses will never pay for an application that has BETA VERSION listed on the work screen!]]> Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:14:31 -0500
GoogleApps has less than 150K paid users and that number doesn't get ANYONE on ANY software radar screen!

No serious business uses a free service for a mission critical business application.

Also, businesses will never pay for an application that has BETA VERSION listed on the work screen!]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/115483-recession-creates-opportunities-for-web-based-app-companies?source=feed#comment-360970 360970
Pathetic as there are much better SaaS applications availble for businesses.

Postini, anyone? Great Google product that has 10,000 times more paid users than Google Apps and solves a problem which every company who has their own domain experiences...threats via email.]]> Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:19:14 -0500
Pathetic as there are much better SaaS applications availble for businesses.

Postini, anyone? Great Google product that has 10,000 times more paid users than Google Apps and solves a problem which every company who has their own domain experiences...threats via email.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/114785-google-opens-doors-to-resellers?source=feed#comment-355709 355709
Google is giving resellers a whopping 20% markup and telling resellers they must pay for their own marketing, training, and technical support.

By industry standards, this are pathetic margins when faced with ads, teaching and support questions down the road.

Google is the king of search.

MSFT is the king of the reseller channel. Google's role in the channel is a joke...a very bad joke to boot!]]> Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:20:24 -0500
Google is giving resellers a whopping 20% markup and telling resellers they must pay for their own marketing, training, and technical support.

By industry standards, this are pathetic margins when faced with ads, teaching and support questions down the road.

Google is the king of search.

MSFT is the king of the reseller channel. Google's role in the channel is a joke...a very bad joke to boot!]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/113240-does-google-care-about-pcs?source=feed#comment-346535 346535
$200M in revs for a $20B a year firm is 1%.

Pitiful, ain't it?]]> Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:51:06 -0500
$200M in revs for a $20B a year firm is 1%.

Pitiful, ain't it?]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/111623-google-and-youtube-dynamic-duo-dominates-search?source=feed#comment-334269 334269
Other than for search, Google is a worthless ad agency who dabbles in technology!]]> Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:50:08 -0500
Other than for search, Google is a worthless ad agency who dabbles in technology!]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/108576-microsoft-vs-the-cloud?source=feed#comment-318257 318257
Microsoft will dominate in mission critical business applications.

MSFT is a joke in search.

GoogleApps will never have more than 2-3% of Office users migrate to them.]]> Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:21:57 -0500
Microsoft will dominate in mission critical business applications.

MSFT is a joke in search.

GoogleApps will never have more than 2-3% of Office users migrate to them.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/107793-google-i-see-a-bargain-here?source=feed#comment-314808 314808
______________________...

None of your analogies here are valid. Cisco has a wide range of products that generate 3-4-5-6-7% of overall business. So does Intel and CAT has a very wide range of heavy equipment that generates decent percentages of business.

NONE of Google's non search businesses ALL ADDED TOGETHER generate more than 1% of Google revenue OR profits.

NONE!

Amateur investors are amateur for a reason! ]]> Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:46:33 -0500
______________________...

None of your analogies here are valid. Cisco has a wide range of products that generate 3-4-5-6-7% of overall business. So does Intel and CAT has a very wide range of heavy equipment that generates decent percentages of business.

NONE of Google's non search businesses ALL ADDED TOGETHER generate more than 1% of Google revenue OR profits.

NONE!

Amateur investors are amateur for a reason! ]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/107868-google-layoffs-how-to-reverse-a-55-stock-decline?source=feed#comment-314678 314678
Google is not run very effeciently. Just look how many interviews a prospective applicant goes through before a job offer.

The Google average is 8 interviews.

Laughable!]]> Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:56:27 -0500
Google is not run very effeciently. Just look how many interviews a prospective applicant goes through before a job offer.

The Google average is 8 interviews.

Laughable!]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/107591-buy-sell-or-hold-google-still-leaves-competitors-in-the-dust?source=feed#comment-313628 313628
Google is a one trick pony and their stock price correctly establishes their corporate value for paid search.

Unless and until Google can produce real revenue and profits from their non-search products, investors will continue to see this stock price make a valiant attempt at $150 per share!]]> Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:36:28 -0500
Google is a one trick pony and their stock price correctly establishes their corporate value for paid search.

Unless and until Google can produce real revenue and profits from their non-search products, investors will continue to see this stock price make a valiant attempt at $150 per share!]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/104075-why-is-the-youtube-user-experience-so-poor?source=feed#comment-298825 298825
Can you honestly call Chrome a success? A service available since a few weeks ago cannot be called a success.]]> Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:03:04 -0500
Can you honestly call Chrome a success? A service available since a few weeks ago cannot be called a success.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/104075-why-is-the-youtube-user-experience-so-poor?source=feed#comment-298669 298669
Hell, name a Google service or product that is successful--Other than Search? Zero.]]> Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:13:49 -0500
Hell, name a Google service or product that is successful--Other than Search? Zero.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/102579-do-web-versions-of-office-applications-hurt-microsoft-or-google-more?source=feed#comment-293236 293236
The Google team told us that they are having substantial issues flipping users from the FREE version of GoogleApps to the PAID version. Once someone gets something for FREE, why should they pay for a small incremental change?

GoogleApps itself is a BETA product that is at least 18 months away from thinking about posing a threat to MSFT office. GoogleApps has a weak word processor, an even weaker spreadsheet and the colaboration tools are a work-in-progress.

It was very obvious that the entire GoogleApps team have never shipped a real live product to business users...ever!

The presentations were mixed and contradictory. The information given was weak and and the presentors even weaker.

Google shareholders should be happy that their fortunes are NOT tied to the GoogleApps group.

Search is still Google's only revenue and profit spigot.

GoogleApps won't contribute much to Google's revenue and profit picture...ever!]]> Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:48:17 -0400
The Google team told us that they are having substantial issues flipping users from the FREE version of GoogleApps to the PAID version. Once someone gets something for FREE, why should they pay for a small incremental change?

GoogleApps itself is a BETA product that is at least 18 months away from thinking about posing a threat to MSFT office. GoogleApps has a weak word processor, an even weaker spreadsheet and the colaboration tools are a work-in-progress.

It was very obvious that the entire GoogleApps team have never shipped a real live product to business users...ever!

The presentations were mixed and contradictory. The information given was weak and and the presentors even weaker.

Google shareholders should be happy that their fortunes are NOT tied to the GoogleApps group.

Search is still Google's only revenue and profit spigot.

GoogleApps won't contribute much to Google's revenue and profit picture...ever!]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/102359-share-of-online-searches-by-engine-sept-2008?source=feed#comment-292438 292438
I believe an Obama DOJ will somehow find a way to investigate Google for potential monopoly practices.]]> Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:05:08 -0400
I believe an Obama DOJ will somehow find a way to investigate Google for potential monopoly practices.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/96898-running-the-numbers-google-looks-like-a-buy?source=feed#comment-262473 262473
Perhaps, over time the revenue and profit stream from other divisions of Google can increase their contribution.

But for today Google is nothing but the worlds largest advertising agency.]]> Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:55:19 -0400
Perhaps, over time the revenue and profit stream from other divisions of Google can increase their contribution.

But for today Google is nothing but the worlds largest advertising agency.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/95419-google-isn-t-evil-just-shortsighted?source=feed#comment-254852 254852 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:17:12 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/94726-googles-second-decade?source=feed#comment-250871 250871
Exactly what large businesses don't want in a reliable business relationship.]]> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:07:34 -0400
Exactly what large businesses don't want in a reliable business relationship.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/93527-google-chrome-android-and-the-cloud?source=feed#comment-244110 244110
I hope to be proven wrong, but the reality of today is that Google loves to make splashes, but businesses need to make profits, too!

Search profits will not last forever.]]> Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:54:10 -0400
I hope to be proven wrong, but the reality of today is that Google loves to make splashes, but businesses need to make profits, too!

Search profits will not last forever.]]>