Google Apps just won the Valeo account (with 30,000 users) for document storage and editing, with mail and calendars to follow later in the year. That’s a lot of lost revenue for Microsoft Office and Exchange… and MS’s web-based Office applications are still not even in beta.
Google are naturally crowing -
This deployment across Valeo’s distributed workforce of 192 business entities in 27 countries and five continents demonstrates the vast scalability of Google Apps. Whether your company has just five employees in a single room, or tens of thousands of people scattered around the globe, Google Apps can easily provide powerful messaging and collaboration tools.
Despite its bugs and shortcomings, Google Apps is using the recession to oust Microsoft with a stripped-down service that does just enough.
At Conosco, we’ve seen a sudden pick-up in new customers since March – and many are startups using Google Apps, which we’re happy to support.
This adds to the claim that MS is not competing with Apple anymore, its competing with Google.