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Google Buzz is headed for the enterprise. According to the Google Enterprise blog, Google Buzz will become a part of Google Apps within the next few months.

Google Buzz applies as much to the enterprise as it does to the consumer market. The real-time application creates an extension for communication that adds a threaded context to a conversation, a critical component for an enterprise application.

From time to time, we look at how Enterprise 2.0 practices are reaching into companies.

A recent post by Michael Idinopulos demonstrates how the premises for finding Enterprise 2.0 champions is often flawed. Too often the search is for the right personality. Instead, the focus of the search should really be for the people who are "exchanging knowledge, information, and ideas across large parts of the organization."

SAP's CEO Léo Apotheker resigned today. SAP will return to a co-CEO structure, replaced by Bill McDermott, head of field organization, and Jim Hagemann Snabe, head of product development.

The particulars are to be announced early tomorrow.

According to the Financial Times, one reason for the resignation is SAP's delays in the introduction of a new online-based business software for small and medium-size companies.

SAP is experimenting with augmented reality to show it can be used with its business applications.

On the SAP Web 2.0 blog, Timo Elliott calls it "Augmented Corporate Reality." The AR application is so far is only a concept, but it clearly demonstrates how SAP Business Objects could fit with Layar, an augmented reality browser. For those new to the AR world, Layar is installed on a smartphone. You point the camera at an object or location. Information is layered on top of the real-world image you see on the screen, based on what the smartphone camera is capturing.

The Google Enterprise blog has a post tonight about some new features being unveiled that should assuage some of the critics who discount the security of using Google Apps on a mobile device.

The new features permit corporate IT policies to be enforced from the customer's Google Apps console across different mobile devices with the exception of Android smartphones, which will eventually have similar features.

The influence that Facebook is having on the enterprise now goes beyond making the corporate world a more Web-oriented place - its impact now goes deep into the code.

Facebook announced this week that it has rewritten the PHP runtime, translating it to C++ (a more machine-readable language) which is then compiled with g++. This is no small feat. Facebook engineer Haiping Zhao said that the rewrite significantly reduced the CPU usage on its Web servers by an average of about 50% depending on the page

The impact of this development on the enterprise will depend on a few factors:

In the full spirit of cloud computing, Microsoft is making it a top priority to charge by the minute for applications that are ported to Windows Azure.

This is the case in today's beta release of Windows Azure Drive, which allows Windows users to run their applications in the cloud using the Windows NTFS APIs.

The service is intended to make it simpler to migrate to the cloud.

Today's smartphones are useful for messaging and some collaboration applications.

But connecting to applications on a desktop with a smartphone is impractical. It's far easier to see your desktop using a laptop with virtualization software.

Citrix Systems and Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs) are teaming up so the smartphone has its own virtualization software, allowing it to access any application on a virtual desktop.

On-premise applications like Sharepoint are becoming a target for cloud-based services. Up to now, customers could either start with Sharepoint, or an online alternative like Google Sites.

But now we are seeing the emergence of services that help you migrate Sharepoint to Google Apps. LTech announced today that it is offering LTech CloudMove, a tool that automates moving documents to the cloud.

Larry Ellison completed Oracle's purchase of Sun this week. Now he is making it clear he wants a professional basketball team.

There have been rumors for months that Ellison wanted to purchase the beleaguered Golden State Warriors, a National Basketball Association team out of the San Francisco Bay area.