Many times the only thing you think of when you talk about corporate group ware solutions is Exchange/Outlook and Lotus Notes. There are some other solutions, but those are the two main ones. Since I have gone exclusively to Gmail lately (I just love the interface, and conversations is so revolutionary and functional) I can only wonder if Google would be willing to get into the hosted groupware market. Hell, integrate with Salesforce.com (this is supported through S-Force, although somehow I see Google working a bit more closely with SalesForce). Imagine a calender and other features, it would be a killer application that companies could either host locally or have hosted by Google. Google could probably even put their advertising on it to make money.

Eoban thought of the idea of a Google Jabber Client before (and it surprisingly showed up a few notable places after he proposed the idea on his Apple website) and added on to this groupware solution I think that Google could take over the corporate world. Google has the ability to take off where Yahoo, MSN, and now AOL are going: with a lightweight solution that works everywhere as a functional solution for corporations.

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