A few days back Google rolled out its application tools for small to medium enterprises. Om Malik rejected this latest plethora of freebies from Google because he didn’t like Google’s privacy disclosure for this.



However, Steve Bryant has an interesting and analytical post listing 5 good reasons why you should go for Google Office and 5 reasons why you shouldn’t.



The best things I have liked in favour of Google Office are:



a) It will cut the cost of small enterprises

b) The free online data storage (GDrive)

c) Google’s plans to release APIs to enable directory server and service-level agreement integration



The three things that go against Google Office as of now are:



a) Of course the privacy policy that pissed off Om

b) The Google apps are still not completely integrated with each other as it should be in a ’suite’

c) As Steve says, you would like to have absolute control over your apps and docs. It doesn’t give you enough confidence to host them in someone else’s servers, right?





Read Steve full article here.