On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Jim Davis <hofli...@depressedpress.com> wrote:
> The tool still have an "experimental" feel to them and features and behaviors
> often change.

100% agree.

> They also don't integrate as easily into
> large enterprise environments

Google is a large enterprise environment, they sue it.  They are
definitely an exception.

> that have come to depend on certain higher-end
> features available in offline apps (such as revision tracking, work-group
> management, etc).

Revision tracking is available in Google Docs and Spreadsheets.
Groups are too, though it's very very rudimentary in it's design.

> In the end tho' the kind of documentation that I develop simply can't be
> done with the Google tools.  They're not even close (yet).

Yes, alot of formatting and drawing tools are absent.  It's restricted
to HTML really, which makes even creating tables or data a huge PITA

> (they have a basic Word Processing and Spread Sheet but no presentation,
> layout, project management or diagramming packages - yet).

They do have a presentation package.

> All that said the 80/20 rule definitely still applies: the google tools do
> provide MOST of what MOST people need.

Agreed.

-Cameron

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