SMB users enthusiastic as they try out Google Apps They like the ease-of-use, simple setup and that it's free
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August 31, 2006 (Computerworld) -- With small IT budgets and limited
technical staffs, a sampling of small and medium-size businesses (SMB)
have been kicking the tires of Google Inc.'s free, Web-based Google
Apps for Your Domain collaboration offerings and are finding that it
meets many of their business communications needs.
Alejandro Pivaral, CIO of Miami-based 2night Entertainment Corp., a
local entertainment Web site, said his company's 100 employees have
been signed up for Google's free services, which will allow him to dump
an e-mail server and its associated expenses for upkeep.
"I don't use Outlook anymore," Pivaral said in an e-mail response. "I
only use Gmail," which is Google's free hosted e-mail service.
"Managing accounts is easier than ever," he said.
The key to trying the new hosted applications, he said, was that they
are offered for free, but the value has turned out to be deeper.
"Definitely [being free was] one of the main reasons" to use the
services, he said. "It's ad-supported, but the ads don't distract; many
times they are interesting. I love Google products. Their innovation is
changing the way we work."
Launched under beta on Monday, Google Apps for Your Domain is a suite
of free, hosted collaboration applications for SMBs and other groups.
The company plans to expand to larger companies by year's end.
Google said a wider, "premium" set of the applications, which will
carry fees, will be available by the fourth quarter for large
enterprises. One of the big pluses of Google Apps, users said, is that
companies can create free e-mail accounts using their own custom domain
names, giving them added professionalism and credibility on the Web.
The suite includes Gmail and Google's Calendar, Talk and Page Creator
applications, all of which have either been rolled out in recent months
or are being integrating with each other this year. More applications
will be added over time.
Another user, Michael Renzi, director of finance and administration at
San Jose City College in California, said the school joined an
early-user program last February and created the school's first e-mail
accounts for its approximately 11,000 students.
"It's providing them with services that we haven't been able to provide
before" because of budget restrictions, he said.
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