Sharing Internal Data with Google Apps

If you use things like the Start Page (now sites)  or Google App Engine with your Google Apps account, you might find  that you cannot create applications or gadgets that Connect behind your firewall on your internal network. 

 Google released Google SDC — a tool that you can install on a linux box in your organization that basically exposes internal URL’s to things like Google Spreadsheets, Google Gadgets and Google App Engine applications. With access to these local URL’s, you can basically create services that access any of the data that you want to expose.

This definitely makes Google Apps more attractive to organizations that recognize the importance of internally sharing data and creating applications that can use it.  Now we can fully replace corporate portals like WebSphere, SharePoint and Oracle!