[dba-Tech] Is Google docs gone?

Hi Mark:

I like the Google products. 

Many companies depend on them, though I am not as up in what is the current
state-of-the-art when it comes to Google or any part of the industry for
that matter. Being free products there is always the danger, especially if a
third-party company becomes very reliant on the specific app just to find
the pricing structure has dramatically changed or the product has been
abandoned.

So Google Apps are not sold as a bundle? (Excluding GMail of course) I
thought the pricing had recently changed? ...or is the bundle still fee for
single users?

Jim

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Mark Breen
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 6:30 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Is Google docs gone?

Hello Jim,

Google have made Google Apps a paid for service.  This effects people that
want to use company based google services all integrated with the company
domain name.

Gmail is still free, and so is the docs and calendar associated with single
accounts.  If you want free collaborative docs and spreadsheets, the google
offering is still one of the best.

Incidentally, I still have in my google docs a *Writely* doc which my
daughter created and shared online years ago, before Google purchased
Writely.com.


thanks

Mark




On 7 February 2013 04:12, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi All:
>
> Before Google decided to make its Docs package pay-as-you-go, the company
> that owned it made the original source OSS. It was subsequently completely
> rewritten.
>
> So now you can still do collaborative notes with the Open Source version
> and
> export the contents to a variety of formats. For viewing and testing you
> can
> check out the demo at Mozilla called MoPad. It now runs on Node.js:
>
> https://etherpad.mozilla.org/
>
> If you want to use this EtherPad application at your office, home or
> share-it on the web, you can download it install it and run it across you
> web sites/internally or externally and even run it in an iFrame on
intranet
> (internet) your web pages...and as you would expect it is fast...very very
> fast.
>
> http://etherpad.org/
>
> It will also give you a good reason to have Node.js install on your Linux
> server.
>
> Aside: If you want to get started it will take a few steps to install but
> nothing too challenging. If stumped, don't know where to start or just
> being
> cautious during the installation, drop a post the DBA-Tech.
>
> Jim
>
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