i have it from a very, very reliable source that elgoog began migrating their own internal corporate employees to google apps nearly 13 months ago…to be specific, as of last winter elgoog employees were using gmail for communications and assorted apps for collaboration (mostly calendar)…actually, i knew this last november but was only able to share this information with a coupla folks who needed to know (also figured nobody would believe me and was unwilling to name this source though it is an enterprise employee within the beast)…

now if we peer into the future of elgoog, most notably their fledgling enterprise offering, one has to wonder why this grand operator has not boldly claimed their own entity as the most obvious testament to the reliability of their enterprise offerings for support of a major public company with a globally distributed workforce…

so we know they use oracle for finance, probably powerpoint for everything investors saw through last spring, and we know that they’ve built tons of their own apps in house (not just back end search stuff, but their own crm apps, their own hiring systems and so on)…i figure that eventually everything they’ve built in house will make its way into the hands of customers, but that’s not my point here…

why is this giant “10-thousand-plus-employees” publicly held software and services company posturing as the fat controller for the future of web services if they are still unable to state out loud exactly how they eat what they make?

…does this bother anybody else? should ge or other enterprise prospects really consider hosted apps if they can’t see a case study from the maker and peek behind the curtain to see the wizard at work? specifically, what is broken inside the infrastructure that fails compliance for a publicly held firm such that this one player still can’t show its hand, even though it’s been well over a year since the experiment began (september 06 to be exact, that was the first employee-base mail migration)

it’s one thing to throw free stuff around and grab low hanging fruit, like higher education or tiny companies, but seriously - how might one expect elgoog to really take on ibm, microsoft, oracle or others if they aren’t ready to profile how it all works…investors need to start asking questions about google’s enterprise ambitions because they do not appear to have any real plans beyond the AFM approach (afm = anything for money)

yeah, i’m rambling…just bugs me that i’ve still seen nothing on this and it’s almost the end of 2007…

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