I see now, that my OP wasn't clear, and it's mostly because I assumed people knew what Google Apps was. But they have lots of different offerings, that overlap with each other in functionality, so it's not that clear. Hopefully this will clarify:
You may have a gmail account (or more than one.) With this account, you get free email, docs/spreadsheets, etc, and a whole bunch of online apps, and webpages, blog, etc. But it's all done using your @gmail.com address. You can even add "Send As" alias addresses, but if somebody sends mail to a non-gmail address, it doesn't get delivered here; it gets delivered to the mail server registered as the MX for the non-gmail domain. If you like all that stuff and want to use your own domain name, they make Google Apps. So your company (or whatever) can use a gmail-like web interface, can manage your own user accounts, can receive mail addressed to [email protected], can use a private version of google docs and all that stuff, including the hosting of your web pages, blogs, team sites, etc. It's all private, only accessible by your company, google employees, and whoever you might have granted external permission to. Google Apps is a direct competitor of Office365 and other hosted solutions for mail and stuff. Up till recently, they offered both a free version of Google Apps, and a paid version. But moving forward, they're not taking any new Free Google Apps customers. They continue to offer the free @gmail.com services, and they continue to offer paid Google Apps, and they continue to service accounts that were previously signed up for Free Google Apps. But no more Free Google Apps signups. I didn't post the original message because it was an email directly to me (and presumably millions of other recipients) from google. I figure anyone who's interested will be able to find it trivially with a google search. _______________________________________________ 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/
