Google Apps To Start Making Real Money

I still don't see companies dumping Microsoft Office for Google's solution, even if it eventually has email, calendaring, a word processor, spreadsheets and presentations. Google's solution, at "a few dollars per person per month", (assuming that is anywhere from $3-7 a month) amounts to a cost of $36-84 a year per employee for a product with similar capabilities to costs $239 to upgrade (and considerably less to businesses who use volume licensing).

Considering that (a) Google's office products require and internet connection (b) companies don't like giving up their data, even to Google (c) companies take years to upgrade for one version of Office to the next, I can't see a company using Google Apps when they can use Microsoft Office, which is going to be positioned as the more powerful and flexible option, for an equal or lower price. Why would you buy less features, when Google's subscription rate isn't actually cheaper than Microsoft's retail price?

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