325 posts since
Jul 14, 2004
Re: Google to buy Postini for $625 million
"One of the first things potential customers ask about is offline access to applications," he said.
I don't understand the reasoning behind this statement. First of all, the article at hand is looking at Google Apps from the viewpoint of business users. When are business users not online? They are always online unless there's a system failure, in which case many functions besides Google apps are temporarily unavailable. It seems to me that the only users who have a reasonable need to work offline with any regularity are dial-up customers, who surely constitute a shrinking minority.