after wading through scads of cruft in the comments on anil’s thoughts on the google/pyra thing, bill lazar hits the nail solidly and squarely on the head, at least for the corporate side of things:
“The one thing all the commentary so far is focused on are the effect on personal blogs and Google’s current provision of all ‘personal’ services at no charge.
But what no one has mmentioned, and may really be the key, is that Pyra has/is about to have a version of Blogger written more or less completely in Java that can be deployed on any server. The Globo deal was just the tip of the iceberg, they (Ev and Jason) wanted to sell this into corporations for a few $k per server. Combine that with Google search appliance and maybe another odd piece or two and you have a very sophisticated, valuable Intranet addition.”
on the general consumer side, my bet is that news.blogger.com is going to stop 404ing real soon now – the resurrection of the moreover/blogger newsblogger project is a certainty.