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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jan 27, 2012 at 01:24 PM
Dr Andus wrote:
>On the face of it it looks very similar to Google Docs and whatever the Microsoft
>equivalent is…
I’d say it looks similar to Google Sites, not Docs (word processor, spreadsheet, presentations). And by Microsoft equivalent I expect you mean Sharepoint.
Indeed. The concept is very similar (it is after all a kind of intranet, with the possibility of making parts of it public). However, there are many such offerings in the market which means that Google and Microsoft have not managed to monopolise the market. In my company we rely in the Google Apps infrastructure, but don’t find the Google sites offering convenient to use.
Papyrs’ selling point seems to be simplicity, and I believe it is indeed very simple to use, while still providing good functionality.
Re your point on reliability of such innovative products: I am myself weary of anything ‘free’ and choose to pay the premium for most webware I use professionally. I feel quite confident with this strategy, though even this way, on one occasion, I was let down: online diskspace service drop.io shut down while I was still a paying user. So I go for the convenience of the online products I like, but keep local copies of just about everything…