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We were completely sold on switching to Google Apps until we tried to get an intelligent response from them on their Postini integration.

We finally came to the conclusion that their lack of responsiveness (and when the DID respond, often they clearly didn’t know what they were talking about) made it way too risky for us to run our business on.

When I first saw writely I thought it was dumb dumb dumb.

We have just finished moving every process possible to Google docs (over word and excel).

- The lack for formatting features, now we see it as a benefit. Have you ever used the Format - ShowFormattingI

- We even use google docs for contracts now. We use to have a file structure customers/custo

It’s weird at first, but not having this crap on my desktop and everyone else’s is liberating.

I didn’t know you can hook up Google’s Q&A feature to a Google Spreadsheet, but you can: the GoogleLookup function “attempts to answer your question using the web, with information about people, places and things, like the population of Japan, the mass of Jupiter, or the place of birth of Abraham Lincoln,” Google’s help entry on the subject says. The syntax is as follows:

=GoogleLookup(“

Among the buyers is Ryder System Inc., the trucking company, which purchased ThinkFree for use across its 700 field offices. Henry Wengier, director of technical services at Ryder, said mechanics, reservation agents and other workers need word processors or spreadsheets only occasionally, and ThinkFree lets them have it all; otherwise it would make no economic sense for him to install Microsoft Office on all 2,000 PCs in those offices.

The deal clincher was the ability to download ThinkFree so that Ryder could run the product behind its computer network’s firewall.