I first picked up on the Google geospatial announcements from a GIS mailing list post. A response to these Google future changes has recently been posted by a key partner. We thought it worth commenting on this post. See a link to the original article and our thoughts below
http://www.webmapsolutions.com/arcgis-online-simple-easy-clean
If you have experience with both esri and Google geospatial technologies it would be interesting to get your thoughts
--Matt
PS. Please note, there is a link in this blog post to work we have been doing with offline. This has relevance to the content and is not meant as some form of guerrilla marketing.