Google Apps Rival Takes Its Turn at Security

Google Apps Rival Takes Its Turn at Security

Written By
Clint Boulton
Clint Boulton
Mar 24, 2008
1 minute read
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Google gets a lot of kudos for its free collaboration Google Apps, but some larger businesses have been reluctant to endorse the suite of e-mail, word processing and spreadsheet software due to concerns that it isn’t secure enough for the enterprise.

The company isn’t the only vendor that has run into those security obstacles.

SAAS (software as a service) collaboration startup Central Desktop, which offers small and midsize businesses and workgroups group calendars, wikis, intranets and task management tools, also has plans to make collaboration software a safer place to work and play.

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