Thanks for the comments. Good or bad, the discourse is always good. I was really sick or reading raving review from Google Fanboys for publicity that ended with the “I can’t wait to try it out”. That’s not a review, that’s paraphrasing the the press release and serves no end except to generate hits and hopefully clicks. I have no advertising here.

The one fatal killer of GC currently for me is the Address Book: “All your contacts in one place”. Not true! It uses copies of what you have from your business account in say Outlook and whatever you use for a personal account. When that information changes; these don’t. I love where Google Aps is going and use Gmail for my personal account. Once this is incorporated to Gmail and Google Aps I’ll get on the train. Until then, this is the major flaw and time suck.

I few thoughts on your comments:
The 1 line/many users issue: Say you have GC setup to simultaneously ring your cell, home and office. Your daughter/son/babysitter picks up the line at home before you can get to it. It could (did) cause some confusion when people are used to calling a specific location or cell and they get temporal confusion when they are routed to who knows where.

Of course this can be modified and configured differently to avoid this. Of course that starts the slippery slope of the bazillion options. Good point Pedro, you can pick and choose. For the self managed power user all the more power to you. I was looking at this from a implementation, training, support view point for a SMB implementing this. Just imagine having this many options for ~30 end users in a target small office environment. Calls getting routed home or to your cell phone, lost business, confused nannies, etc. Sounds like hell to me!

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