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From an interview with Tom Rizzo, Microsoft's senior director for online services, in Redmind Channel Partner.
There's more, much more. Some strikes me as "pot calling the kettle black," as in " . . . Google loves to announce customers, but announcing and deploying are two very different things . . . " What you won't find, nor would you expect to find, any reference to IBM's cloud offering. The only mention is the migration of IBM Lotus customers to the Microsoft cloud, which is to be expected in an article such as this.
RCP: Gartner recently endorsed Google Apps for Business as enterprise ready. Has that upped the competitive stakes, as far as you're concerned?
Rizzo: You know, the interesting thing about that Gartner report, I believe one of the 10 references listed was the city of L.A., and the LAPD has pulled out of deploying Google Apps. So I'd read through that list with a fine-toothed comb, as far as the references [are concerned]. We haven't seen it as an uptick -- we fundamentally disagree that Google is actually ready for enterprise, as you can see by folks like the city of L.A. Google loves to announce customers, but announcing and deploying are two very different things, as you saw in the city of L.A. We have not seen them making a dent in the enterprise. In fact, I'd say we're stealing more customers in SMB then they're winning in the enterprise against us. We're seeing a mass migration of folks off of Google onto the Microsoft Office 365 cloud.
There's more, much more. Some strikes me as "pot calling the kettle black," as in " . . . Google loves to announce customers, but announcing and deploying are two very different things . . . " What you won't find, nor would you expect to find, any reference to IBM's cloud offering. The only mention is the migration of IBM Lotus customers to the Microsoft cloud, which is to be expected in an article such as this.
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