Google docs is down! This really sucks. I was happily editing in offline mode (using Gears), but didn't notice that the service was down until I tried to create a NEW document (which you can only do online!).

I turned off online access, and POOF, I can't see anything but the service unavailable page. AND, there is no way to GO BACK to editing offline again.

I just hope when it comes back, that I haven't lost my offline updates to docs I was working on.

Its interesting to me that Adobe is able to monetize PDF creation, when there are good free alternatives. Acrobat itself is too expensive ($300). I now see they are offering other price points for an online service for PDF creation:

- Free 5 trial (5 documents)
- $10/month
- $100/year

Quoted: Create Adobe PDF Online is the easy way to create professional-looking PDF documents. Offered by Adobe Systems, the inventors of the PDF file format.

Quoted: The services by design approach, if it works, could let SAP protect its profitable licensed software business, get more services revenue from those customers, and address concerns large companies have with putting some of their most sensitive business data in the cloud. For mission-critical applications like accounting, "I don't think large companies will go on demand," Kagermann says.

Quoted: Is it just me, or do the announcements we hear from Salesforce seem to just make a lot more sense than a lot of the tie-ups we hear about on the consumer side of the Web? Last month, the company announced a deal with Google to launch Salesforce for Google Apps, and from what I’ve seen in my brief tour of Visualforce, we’re about to see a lot of really useful applications being cranked out by developers in the Salesforce community. It certainly adds more credence to the theory that Facebook apps are just for fun.