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office vs gdoc
gdoc：
google brand
better integration with most google platforms
has basic functionality, can support 80%+ small & medium business
requirement, if you need a function they dont have, you are out of luck. (
google sales person will tell you to buy office in that case.)
very strong social and collab functions.
very strong consumer usage, start to pick up enterprise.
office:
has both client/server.
can integrate with sharepoint & skydrive
A web version supports basic operations, and if user wants to have more
complex features, they can always turns to client.
Has some integration with lots of partners, including hotmail, facebook,
mail.ru and netease.
Office is still dominating enterprise, but starting to feel the pressure
from google.
Aware of google's strong student&consumer influence, start to tackle that
more.
Google spreadsheet vs excel:
google spreadsheet is good for entry level usage, very good for social usage
, form on spreadsheet do help them a lot and even after two years, excel's
survey is still less powerful than that.
Excel is super strong when start to do fancy things. Couple examples: 1.
using database as data source to create reporting, charting, dashboard and
lots of fancy things.
2.Powerpivot/Powerview to do more fancy in memory database and fancy charts.
3.support 1million rows in a single sheet
4.has HPC solution availible.
5.supporting legacy files even more than 10 years old files.
All the other things are catchable, the only thing I cant see google achieve
is the last one. Commitment to support all version/files for 15 years. MSFT
has proved they can do that and there is no other software company can do
that including apple and google.
By the way, in 1990s, spreadsheet is easy and only do simple things, but as
of today, it's very powerful and way more complicated than regular hadoop
system :D. In case you dont know, like 4 years ago, excel has the ability to
spread workbook recalc into multiple HPCs and consolidate results back into
a single file (map/reduce anyone?). By having that, someone reduced recalc
time of a workbook from more than 7 days to less than 24 hours. I forgot
which company, it's either GS or GE.
