Office today, ERP tomorrow

Google releases an office “suite” :

Initial apps are Gmail Web e-mail, the Google Talk instant message and Web phone-calling service, group scheduling on Google Calendar, and Google Page Creator for Web page design.

Naturally the press hops on the Microsoft challenged meme. Evidently Microsoft “anticipated” this move long back (when these set of moves have been the most open secret for the past couple of years:

Anticipating Google’s moves, the world’s biggest software maker has responded with Windows “Live” — Web-based software for small business and consumers.

I am guessing anticipated means dragged with legs kicking.

But Microsoft’s unwillingness to deliver its software until it is “fully baked” gives Google an opening to win adherents to its approach, the analyst said.

Yes, because that strategy worked really well with search and ads.
Anyway, I am starting my countdown to Google expanding into the enterprise apps market with salesforce or netwuite acquisition. [Day 1]