I'm not a Google spokesperson, so I can't confirm or deny anything. Perhaps I shouldn't have said anything in the first place, but I felt that the original post in this thread was a little too brief for clarity, and didn't include a link to the official announcement.
-Brent On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Jo Rhett <[email protected]> wrote: > I read this announcement and got most of what you are saying here. I'd > like to confirm: Google wants our business, but only under gmail.comgoing > forward? If a person can effectively use google with their private > domain name, some howtos would be useful. I tried doing this a while back > and it kept exposing my gmail account name, which is why I got a free apps > account. > > On Dec 8, 2012, at 3:13 PM, Brent Chapman wrote: > > 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/ >> >> > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > > -- > Jo Rhett > Net Consonance : net philanthropy to improve open source and internet > projects. > > > >
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