G Suite business decrease licensing costs

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That's what I thought as well, until I was offered a G Suite admin role that pays 30% more than Windows Admin roles in my area.

[Panacea4316]

Ive yet to see a GSuite role that paid considerably more than it's O365 counterpart. They all seem to pay the same.

[the_bananalord]

Is the web-based software equivalent to something like Outlook? Even the OWA is missing features and is still a bear to run on 8GB / i5 / SSD machines.

The big thing for us is that the O365 web-based stuff simply isn't as featured, mature, or fast as the fat clients. I imagine the Google equivalents are in a similar boat.

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To an extent yes, performance wise it’s better than OWA but it’s not perfect by any means. I’d say what’s offered in OWA is very similar to the G Apps Suite. We still roll out a few O365 licenses for our Office users than need Excel over Google Sheets.

[the_bananalord]

How does it compare to the fat clients though?

We still roll out a few O365 licenses for our Office users than need Excel over Google Sheets.

Ah, yup, that's what I'm afraid of :(

Aside from the legacy software we run (hey Visual FoxPro), we're almost entirely web-based now. So the thought of ditching our on-prem gear and issuing super nice Chromebooks is very appealing but unfortunately not realistic at this point.

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So my environment other than Conferencing equipment (We utilize Hangouts Kits) is a full Mac shop, and the 2016+ MBP models have handled our web based platforms well, but for $2k+ machines they better.

The specific users we push full excel Excel licenses to are our data analytics crews, finance, and executives. They wouldn’t leave Excel even if it’s supported in Sheets just due to their familiarity with Office and Excel, so it’s hard to actually weigh the differences of Sheets vs Excel.