It's all over the web today. Google has officially released Google Apps Premier edition for sale to enterprises (Wired).
What's not being pointed out in the reading I did today is that they are willing to give away--no cost--the Google Apps Education edition to accredited schools and universities. From what I can tell, it looks like the only difference between the enterprise and education packages are price and the size of storage (10GB and 2GB respectively). After the wonderful experience I've had with GroupWise, I'd absolutely love it if we could move over to Google Apps.
Groupwise
What the heck is Groupwise? Are you talking about the Novell app?
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Yep. Groupwise. Many
Yep. Groupwise. Many institutions use it. Over the years, I've seen many other people complain about it, too.
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Charlie | cyberdash
One of the problems with
One of the problems with adopting Google apps in education is Google docs inability to deal with footnotes and more complex formatting that's often required for academic papers. Plus, why adopt Google apps, cheap maybe, but not open. Why not OpenOffice?
collaborative work
Google Docs is excellent for team writing projects. I have students in multiple classes using it this semester, and collaboration has been much easier when they aren't having to write in chunks and pass the file around. I also think that the revision history information interface is intuitively easy use.
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