Comment How long until we start hearing... (Score 1) 266
Within months we'll start hearing:
1. Low-end users - those who don't generally works at desks - will be the primary users of Google Apps.
2. Most of their desk workers will continue to use Microsoft Office. They'll use Google Apps for email and sharing Word, Excel and PowerPoint docs.
3. The total cost of this move will probably be higher than using on-premises mail servers or using servers.
4. There will be another GMail/Google Docs outage that will piss people off.
And, I'd say there's a 50-60% chance that they'll back off this experiment within a year or two and use Google Apps in a much more limited way.