Search engine giant Google Microsoft Office 2010 has gone into overdrive in promoting

Search engine giant Google Microsoft Office 2010 has gone into overdrive in promoting its Google Apps cloud based enterprise suite with adverts in various prominent magazines including The Economist.Google's recent Google Apps ad in The Economist reflects the company's determination to push its productivity suite ahead of Microsoft Office, The Register reports.The four page ad claims that every day 3000 businesses are shifting to Google's platform with over 3 million businesses adopting Google Apps since its launch in 2007.
In an interview with The Register, David Girouard, the president of Google's Enterprise business, stated "it's not that we haven't been promoting [Google Apps] all along, but we also have been cognizant that the Windows 7 Home Premium product needed to mature. We've been in the market with our cloud apps for almost four years now, and the products are maturing and getting better."
In a swipe at rivals Microsoft who offer a part desktop ms windows 7 part cloud suite he stated, "we believe that 100% web is the future of the cloud computing model."He added that people needed to see the power of the cloud and that it is not just something for the future but is already happening on a large scale.“You have to build confidence over time. The reality is that everybody will be doing it. It's like using a telephone. You don't think twice about using a telephone for business purposes now, but it used to be considered strange,” he said in a statement.
Development software and services provider Sonatype earlier this month Office 2010 Pro surveyed more than 1600 developers, architects and managers regarding the deployment and use of open source solutions in the development infrastructure. The survey revealed that dev organizations have widely deployed open source tools and solutions, but with little effective control and management.
According to the survey, fully 83 percent of respondents reported having deployed open source development tools, with 50 percent saying those deployments had been adopted as part of a corporate standard. While more than half of the surveyed firms identified poor integration between tools as a top complaint, the larger concern may be the lack of control over open source tool deployments.
Advertisement "These things start organically, but then spread and grow up in the enterprise," said Charles Gold, chief marketing officer at Sonatype. "What we're hearing most often is that companies really love the tools, but that they need better Office Professional Plus 2010 support and integration in order to extend their usage even further."
Lack of control over open source deployments was a real issue, according to the survey. Eighty-seven percent of respondents said their organizations "exert little control over the use of open source components," with 42 percent stating they had no corporate standard for adopting open source dev tooling. Another 45 percent said they had standards, but they were not enforced.
"By some estimates, $70 billion is spent each year on custom software development and 40 percent of that is wasted," Gold said. "Many organizations adopt open source to improve the efficiency and cost effectiveness of their custom development initiatives. But without controls they're leaving money on the table."
Gold urged development managers to focus on two key office 2007 professional plus areas when managing open source solutions -- integration and support.
"Many organizations fall into the trap of do-it-yourself integration between their tools. Then, as adoption increases and various components change, their integrations become increasingly fragile," Gold said of the integration challenge facing many companies.
He also urged organizations standardizing on open source software to seek support from a dedicated provider, rather than rely on internal resources.
"When your team is supporting your tools rather than writing software -- you're losing the benefits of using open Microsoft Office 2007 source software," Gold said.