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By: Steven Anderson

Steven Anderson — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:04:14 +0000

I like Google Docs too, but I don’t like Basecamp. I prefer Wrike. The tools is very convenient, as you can collaborate with as many people as you want and all of them will get free accounts.

By: adidas

adidas — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:24:06 +0000

We run a small company of the same size and Zoho’s offering fit us quite well.We also find http://writer.zoho.com to be the closest to MSWORD feature wise.

By: Leonard

Leonard — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:19:02 +0000

I totally agree, but I’d go further and say that it works very well for medium and even large companies.

I have always considered MS Office an “essential” application, but a colleague tried to convince me that you can do without Office by using Google Docs and the free Office viewers (e.g. Excel Viewer). His argument was that for reading documents you use the viewers (easy viewing from a double-click), but for creating new documents you use Google Docs. I was sceptical because I am a big Exel user, but have since purchased a new computer (Vista, yikes!) and thought I’d give his way a try. It did take some getting used to, but now I am convinced he is right because I have been able to “survive” for about a month without any issues.

A very good side-effect was that I have realized how often documents are really meant to be shared. Now I am at the point where I get really frustrated when people send Excel spreadsheets around for collaboration purposes via email. It’s so unproductive because you never know what is the latest version. One can argue that Sharepoint server solves those problems, but it doesn’t when you have remote/disconnected users that can’t connect to your Sharepoint server.

This conversion is very difficult for users in a corporate environment, for various reasons, but still I see more and more corporate users making use of Web based apps.

As you paraphrased it, “It’s the end of software as we know it, and I..”

By: Anthony Juliano

Anthony Juliano — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:26:15 +0000

Great post, Doug. I was talking to one of my friends the other day, a guy who runs a small design shop. He works with a writer 150 miles away, and he sometimes collaborates with people as far away as Denver. How do they make it work? Google Docs and Google Apps. To liberally paraphrase R.E.M., this could be the end of software as we know it, and I for one would feel just fine.