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Pay version of Google Apps for your domain coming soon?
Google Apps for your domain allows domain owners to host email services at Google in a similar format to Gmail, with the added benefit of using their own unique domain. Administrators also have the ability to activate Google Talk, Calendar, custom start page, and domain web pages for different user accounts that they create. Google is expected to soon add Docs & Spreadsheets to this list as well, making it a complete online office solution for businesses. But BusinessWeek reports that Google will soon begin charging companies a subscription fee of a few dollars per person, per month. Business users are used to feature rich applications, so this might take some getting used to when it's released in full to the marketplace. Microsoft has also unveiled Office Live where businesses can have access to web based email, calendar, project and task manager, and a customer organizer for $39.95/month. Zoho has a Virtual Office suite it has brought to the market that has no cost for individuals and $3 per user per month for an online hosted solution, and up to $295 per year for an on-premise solution consisting of webmail, calendar, web docs and sharing, tasks and reports, contacts, notes, bookmarks, instant messaging, WAP access, announcements, and multi-language support.
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socko said 4:00PM on 2-06-2007
google charge; is there such a thing? Either way I will pay.
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Scott Watermasysk said 6:32PM on 2-06-2007
As I mentioned over here (http://scottwater.com/blog/archive/pay-version-of-google-apps-for-your-domain/), I think this is step one. Step two will be something similar to Google Mini which can be installed inside the firewall.
-Scott
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Steven Henley said 12:13AM on 2-08-2007
Our small company is currently using Google Apps and like it very much.
However, if they begin to charge for the services, especially when it includes targeted advertising, we will be moving - the cost differential is minimal and other solutions do not have near the advertising.
Now, if they were to assure us that there would be no advertising in the mix, we might consider staying - but my guess is that they make far more of the advertising than they will with the charging.
I don't believe our company will be the only one to perform an exodus when they begin charging and in fact, I believe that this will be as rampant as roaches fleeing the light.
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Bhav said 10:23AM on 3-06-2007
If google does intend to charge for google apps and advertise as well, they should come clean ASAP. They offer great services but I am hesitant in doing anything official for my small home business until I am sure as to whether or not this is the right solution financially or otherwise.
While I am not saying that Google should make this a free feature (that is entirely their decision),
they do have a large set of beta testers in us it is only fair to provide some sort of a commitment or heads-up, if you may, in return!
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Chris said 9:23AM on 3-04-2007
They already made the announcement:
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/02/22/google-takes-aim-fires-at-microsoft-office/
https://www.google.com/a/
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