Devnet Cloud View & Web Industry News

Australian-owned Devnet says users should consider exiting investments in Microsoft Exchange or Sharepoint and ride Google’s Wave.
Google Enterprise Apps partner Devnet, said it has begun work to integrate, the Web giant’s collaboration platform, Google Wave, into its ‘Cloud Ready’ program.
Devnet managing director Craig Deveson said a lot of cloud-based solutions have simply taken legacy server-based [...]

Windows Live is getting ready for round 3 in the ring with consumers, so far this month they have ruined Hotmail for their 375 million active customers.  The next kid on the bandwagon is a new version of MSN Messaging service which they plan to require all their 330 million users to upgrade to the [...]

Microsoft have launched an online storage system built around a marketing concept that a cool website can sell a product.  The new domain that Microsoft has is developed is www.Mesh.com, this seems to show a change in attitude from having all its new products hosted under the Live or MSN domains.
This online hosted file storage [...]

Which one is best for your organisation? I put them through their paces side by side. Overall, as you’ll see, Google Apps service beats Microsoft Office Live because of its superior e-mail, and because it offers a calendar, something that Microsoft does not.
Initial Setup
For small businesses that are setting up e-mail and managing a Web [...]

By Richard Martin – InformationWeek July 17, 2008 02:10 PM
Spurred by moves from its biggest rival, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), and by a burst of offerings from a clutch of innovative startups, Google is tossing more resources at burgeoning enterprise search tools. In some cases the search giant is applying techniques and technologies from its consumer [...]

The NSW Department of Education and Training has decided to switch their 1.5 million student email accounts from Outlook/Exchange infrastructure to Gmail/Apps. This move is said to be one of the largest private deployments of Gmail anywhere in the world and shows the power of Google services which are based on open platforms around Google [...]