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Re:Confidential Microsoft brief: 'We're toast if we fight Go... by Zigurd on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @09:14AM (#6051617)
What's especially damning is that there are no specifics. It amounts to an unsupported assertion to the sales people that they are not selling the inferior product. I have yet to see any of the "lot of different third party appliances."
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Re:Confidential Microsoft brief: 'We're toast if we fight Go... by Spooky23 on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @09:25AM (#6051682)
The biggest and more prevalent examples are directory and identity federation solutions. Google Apps in an enterprise really require products like Ping Federate and similar products.

Microsoft gives you freebie tools that work most of the time.

Also, because Postini was in the death throes for some time before Google Vault was released, many bigger enterprises went out and bought third party archive/ediscovery solutions.

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