Google’s purchase of DocVerse validates the market for applications that bridge the gap between the Google Apps cloud computing suite and Microsoft’s Office on-premises applications. Google will stitch DocVerse’s technology into Google Apps, appealing to customers who want to use Google Apps as their main collaboration suite but work offline in Office with the documents they created, without losing any of the data. The move comes as OffiSync is building its own suite of software that creates ties between Office and Google Apps.
– Google’s acquisition of collaboration software startup DocVerse for a reported $25 million March 5 validates the market for
applications that bridge the gap between the Google Apps cloud computing suite
and the on-premises Microsoft Office suite.
DocVerse makes a plug-in that lets users group-ed…