Is this the same insight that just hired on a very senior Microsoft trojan horse?
Insight warns Google embracers of hidden costs in Apps for Biz
A number of Microsoft's top table resellers may have wrapped their arms around Google's Apps for Business but one that did so half a decade ago - Insight Enterprises - says it hasn't seen the benefit. CDW and SHI International, both among MS Licensing Solutions Partners, made very public statements in February and March …
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Friday 11th April 2014 13:34 GMT bigtimehustler
"If you have allowed Google to engage in the conversation before you get there then you are a little bit behind that eight ball and you've got a much higher propensity to lose,"
So basically what is being said here is that if Google have had a chance to sell first, you have little chance of selling our solution after! That doesn't sound like confidence in the product and pricing to me!
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Saturday 12th April 2014 22:21 GMT James 100
Vendor lockin coming back to bite
He also seems to evade the point about his customers suffering from being shackled to Microsoft: "many customers' tech estates - as UK.gov is finding out - are "intertwined" with Microsoft" - this isn't a hidden cost of Google Apps, it's a hidden cost of having implemented Microsoft products in the past!
Interesting, though, that it seems to be only larger customers who struggle to cast off those expensive shackles - and not a good omen for MS.