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There has been a lot of hype today about Google Apps and you have to admit, it does sound very intriguing for a wide segment of the community. 

C/Net said:

The new Google Apps Premier Edition costs $50 per user account a year. It includes around-the-clock telephone support, and 10GB of storage per user compared with 2GB. The new edition also includes a guarantee of 99.9 percent uptime for Gmail and application programming interfaces that businesses can use to migrate data, enable single sign-on and do other integration. A free version targeted at educational institutions, Google Apps Education Edition, offers the same features as the premier edition except for the storage size. There is also Google Apps Standard Edition, which is free, but lacks the features of the premier edition.

The price is certainly a huge factor for many but will it provide all that folks want?  For many, I would say yes but I am not sure it will be the total business solution (although some large companies have already announced they are moving over).

Google is beting that a lot of folks will use this service and is currently offering you the ability to try Google Apps Premier Edition for free through April 30th, 2007.  You can get to the Google Apps page here.

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