Monday, May 17, 2010
Google Apps vs Microsoft Live in Swedish HighEd - Winner Microsoft?
Today Microsoft and Malmö University (http://www.mah.se/) announce that they will start to use Live@Edu (http://blogs.technet.com/microsoftnyheter/archive/2010/05/17/nnu-en-h-gskola-v-ljer-microsoft.aspx).
So I wanted to update the statistics a bit, it will clearly show that Microsoft is gaining momentum
In Sweden (during autumn 2009, according to http://www.hsv.se/statistik/statistikomhogskolan there were 384 741 students. From what I know the universities below have implemented a solution for their students. In total: 88 492 students are using Google Apps and 47 553 are using Microsoft Live@Edu.
Google Apps (23,00%)
Gotland University
University of Gothenburg
University of Linköping
University of Lund
Microsoft Live (12,36%)
Chalmers
Stockholm School of Economics
Malmö University
Umeå University
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What's your take on this? Why do these figures matter?
ReplyDeleteIn general I would say these numbers are interesting because they reflect the shift towards Cloud Computing services. It is also interesting to compare the numbers between the two big vendors on the High Ed “productivity” platform market. In the US the equivalent numbers are 75% of High Ed institutions in total (ie Google + Microsoft), as compared to Sweden’s 16% (8 / 49).
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