At today’s Google I/O developer conference, the company revealed that Gmail now has 425 million users. Government organizations in 45 states utilize it, and 66 of the top 100 U.S. institutions have already switched over to using it. More than 5 million businesses have “gone Google,” according to a statement from Google. According to Google, this includes a slew of big names, like Roche and KLM, among others.
The Google+ social layer on top of several of the company’s tools, according to Google’s Sundar Pichai, enables users to do things “you just can’t do with Sharepoint.” Hall & Oates collaborated on songwriting via Google+ Hangouts in today’s demos (“”Just try doing that with Sharepoint.”) as a particular focus of Google’s demos.
In addition, he stated that “the web has evolved significantly since 2004.” AJAX and other technologies have made it possible to replace static websites with dynamic, rich web applications like Gmail.