Google continues to bolster its beachhead on the enterprise email market. Today it announced it is providing free of charge to Google Apps Premier and Education customers a “plug-in” that will migrate Notes mail and personal directory information to Google Apps.
The new tool lets customers migrate mail, calendar and contacts from Notes to Google Apps. The syncing tool, which Google says is a native Notes application, can be installed and configured in less than 30 minutes, for multiple users at once. The tool has already been tested with 40 of Google’s enterprise clients, including JohnsonDiversey (10K users) and Valeo (32K users). The tool is free for Google Apps Premier and Educustomers.
The aggressive ramp up to enterprise-grade solutions hasn’t always… Continue reading: Google Beachhead
Google has lifted the “beta” label from Gmail and other Google Apps, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk. Google makes it clear in its Official Google Blog announcement that they are making the move because enterprises are having a hard time getting around the “traditional definition” of the “beta” software label.
We’re often asked why so many Google applications seem to be perpetually in beta. For example, Gmail has worn the beta tag more than five years. We realize this situation puzzles some people,particularly those who subscribe to the traditional definition of “beta” software as not being yet ready for prime time.
I’m not sure Google ever did a good enough job of telling us what the non-traditional definition… Continue reading: What’s in a Word?