The naming of Google's products makes this somewhat confusing... You can read the official announcement at http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/12/changes-to-google-apps-for-businesses.html, but to clarify a couple of points:
* There is still free access to Google apps like Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations, and so forth, for individuals with a Google account (Gmail account, Google Plus account, etc.); you access them via the "Drive" element on the menu bar when you're logged in to pretty much any Google service. * Google also continues to offer "Google Apps for Business", which is a for-pay service that allows you to set up a private cloud-based instance of the Google applications, including the ability to run Gmail with your own private domain name. There used to be a "free" tier of the "Google Apps for Business" service, for domains of up to 10 users; it's that "free" tier that is being discontinued for new signups (existing domains that had already signed up are unaffected by the announcement, and will continue to be free). -Brent (not speaking on behalf of Google, although I do work there; I manage several of these domains myself, so I was naturally interested in this announcement) On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) < [email protected]> wrote: > FYI**** > > ** ** > > Starting yesterday, Google will not be taking any new customers for free > google apps. Existing free customers may continue using it for free, and > the commercial version still exists (of course.)**** > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > >
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