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There are over 2 billion G Suite users.

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-g-suite-gmail-2-billi...

I’d be surprised if there’s even 200 million GSuite (not free gmail account, since that’s not for commercial use) accounts active. They have like no market share in enterprise outside of schools. (I’ve never met anyone who wasn’t at a school that used GSuite. Which shows the circles I’m in, of course, but I think there’s a weird HN bias where people think that companies outside of smaller shops are using GSuite. Exchange is still good and cheaper than ever.)

The last three companies I've worked at have all been GSuite shops.

How big were the companies? And how long had they been around?

The company I work for, 3k people, is heavy gsuite. The company that owns them, 1.5M people, is all office or aws docs or salesforce docs, but no gsuite. So 1.497M people using office.

salesforce docs???? couldn't find anything about that

Aah I was thinking of Quip.

This is a great reply. Solid facts.

Regarding you experience with GSuite, assuming that you have used MS Office previously, do you find it sufficient for your needs?

We use Google docs for design docs and proposals. We use sheets for basic organization. Engineering, I think, generally just jumps to SQL (redshift/mode) or Jupyter Notebook once we get beyond a few thousand rows. I use Excel sometimes to view CSVs but that's about it.

I worked with MS Office before. My use of Word was the same and google docs, actually, I think is better due to a lack of fancy features. I just use basic text formatting in outline format and attached pictures.

I didn't use excel before.

So yeah I prefer gsuite to office. I had to do a document with word and track changes over email a few months back. It was brutal. Gsuite destroys that workflow.

More great feedback. I'm glad you specifically answered about "sufficient for your needs". There so much bashing from power users, but (to me) the killer app of GSuite is "good enough for most users" and way cheaper than original Microsoft Office.

Note the "smallest shops" bit above.

Did those 3 companies have more than 1000 employees? 100?

They probably count all Android users who create gmail account with phone as GSuite users. Corporate users should be couple of order of magnitude lower.

GSuite is (or rather was, until they renamed it) specifically the corporate version.

Curious what exactly they're counting since they do say "users"? If I have a domain in G Suite with 500 users, is that 500 G Suite users or just 1 G Suite user?

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