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• Now Google wants to move up market and become an enterprise player. For example, it has announced enterprise editions of its
  Google Apps, and has 600 employees across sales, support, engineering, marketing, and product management dedicated to enterprise
  products at Google
• Google Apps is a bunch of free software with very limited functionality hosted at Google's datacenters and accessible over
  the Internet. The suite includes Gmail, which receives revenue from advertising; Google Calendar, which lets users share a
  calendar; Google Talk, for free text and voice calling; and Google Docs, for document creation and collaboration.
• Google claims more than 500,000 companies have signed up for Google Apps, but Gartner analyst Tom Austin
  figures only a handful of employees at each company uses the tools. Given Microsoft Office's 500 million users, he says, "it's a raindrop."
• "In a two-year planning horizon, I don't think anybody is going to confuse Google Apps with Microsoft Office,"