Sorry, I wasn't looking for an official announcement. More of a "has anyone found that you can use your own domain with google now" ? I know of hundreds of people with 1-account google apps domains. I shifted to Free Apps long, long before they did the recent merger of accounts that (mostly) made all accounts equal, google or gapps either way. It is entirely plausible that you no longer need to have gapps to use your own domain cleanly. If so, some lopsa or google-provided howtos would be nice.
Nutshell: friendly curious, not official :) On Dec 9, 2012, at 2:23 PM, Brent Chapman wrote: > 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.com going > 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. > > > > -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : net philanthropy to improve open source and internet projects.
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