Google recruits resellers to take the fight to Microsoft
THE MIGHTY GURGLE has launched a reseller programme for its Google Apps Premier Edition. The firm is taking its fight with Microsoft through the channel and is looking for third-parties to hawk its web-based applications to business clients.
From the end of March, Google's resellers will begin flogging the outfit's cloud computing apps which, unlike Microsoft's Orifice, only exist in space.
The search giant said it will provide sales and technical training, customer marketing materials and representational state transfer (Rest)-based integration APIs for directory synchronisation, migration, reporting and single sign-on.
Google is also cobbling together a portal containing business and technical information, online discussion groups and tools to help resellers set up business customers and provision end users.
Resellers will be able to bundle additional services and support with Google Apps Premier Edition, which features Gmail, Google Docs and Calendar.
"This is a chance for those types of companies to get into the cloud computing revolution," Dave Girouard, president of enterprise at Google said.
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This is great, however there is just one problem.
As sometimes happens in my office building, when the network connection drops and you have no web access, web based computing becomes pretty useless. If I can't use it offline, it's not going to help me if I can't get online. It's doubtful that businesses will fall for this cloud computing nonsense.
Google has the backing of The Inq crowd... Or should that be vise versa, or vis-à-vis? BTW Inq, please have my tickets ready at the Will Call. "Sold Out" is just a pretext. Mr. Bean counter. Yes and I'm the The Vicar of Dibley.