I still keep an eye on what's going on in the software industry so Google's Postini acquisition (announced yesterday) caught my eye. The implications of this aren't new news - it's been pretty clear for a while that Google was going after parts of Microsoft's enterprise desktop fortress - but Postini fills a pretty major hole in Google's strategy.
The best analysis of the deal I've seen today is Bill Burnham's post on the deal, found here. Given the normal quality of Burnham's analysis, I doubt we'll get a better take on the deal from anyone else.
For my money, Google still has the challenge of providing a way to use their apps while the user is off the net. The enterprise market is full of travellers who need access to their apps on their laptops while they are on airplanes or otherwise off the network. Until Google addresses this hole, there are large parts of the enterprise market that will continue to be out of their reach. I know that they are supposedly working on this with Google Gears, so we'll see how that evolves.
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