Google Apps Partner Edition<http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/google-apps-partner-edition.html> 5/18/2007 08:42:00 AM Posted by Hunter Middleton, Product Manager
From the beginning, we envisioned making Google Apps <http://google.com/a>available to any organization that might want to offer this innovative set of services to its employees, customers, students, members, or any other associates of the organization. Today, we're excited to take another step in that direction by releasing a version of Google Apps specifically designed for ISPs, portals, and other service providers, whether you have a few thousand subscribers or over a million. This new version, which we're calling the Partner Edition<http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/partner_edition.html>, makes it easy for large and small service providers to offer your subscribers the latest versions of powerful tools, like Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Docs & Spreadsheets, without having to worry about hosting, updating, or maintaining any of the services yourself. All you have to do is point and click in the easy admin control panel and figure out what branding you'd like to layer on top of the products in order to create a customized look and feel. You can quit spending your resources and time on applications like webmail -- and leave the work to our busy bees at the Googleplex. ok here's the slashdot page... : http://slashdot.org/articles/07/05/20/2144211.shtml *"Google is offering ISPs the opportunity to turn over their entire email operation to Google<http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/google-apps-partner-edition.html>, with all customer email hosted as Gmail accounts. This would allow Google to grow its user base rapidly (Google is a distant third with 51M users compared to Yahoo's 250M and Hotmail's 228M). There are some obvious benefits to end users Google is offering ISPs mailboxes of up to 10GB per user. APCMag.com has posted an interesting piece looking at the dark side of Google's offer<http://apcmag.com/6138/the_dark_side_of_google_apps_for_isps>. Not least is in its reinforcing of the attachment people have to their ISP's email address, making it harder to change ISPs if a better deal comes along."* --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
