Flirting with Google and Scaring the Bejesus out of Microsoft

Wow, amazing timing for our class to be finishing up our case analysis on Google. The article Professor Jang sent us is very interesting:

P&G Flirts with Google Apps and Scares the Bejesus out of Microsoft

The only thing that I thought the article didn't address was probably a major factor in P&G's decision: security. Briefly mentioned in my last post about Google, security is a major factor in Google's entry into the Enterprise world. The security features of Gmail just aren't going to cut it for enterprises carrying extremely sensitive data - for example medical records or payroll information. When everything is going to be centered around web-based applications, security better be as excellent as can be. BUT has Google ever made us think their security is not superior to Microsoft? If you think about how secretive Google has been about their PageRank algorithm, we should not be doubting them at all. Through all of the scares of Google becoming a major competitor of Microsoft I do think that we should be happy. Microsoft now has a competitor to give them a run for their money, maybe they will acutally take a que from Google's innovation and instead of following the pack become the leader of the pack again.

A better question to be asking is if Google is going to become the next Microsoft-like bully...