Can Postini legitimize Google's enterprise ambitions?
Google has been thundering into the SaaS space with their broadening "application-of-the-day" suite. Google has portrayed themselves as a productivity suite contender in the enterprise space, which supports today's announced plan to acquire messaging security provider Postini.
However, they face a Mount Everest-like uphill climb. Google needs to shed their pure-play consumer image, in favor of a provider for consumer and enterprise services. As my ZDNet colleagues, Dan Farber and Larry Dignan, point out in their post today: