Google spruces up corporate e-mail service
ISLAMABAD (October 08 2007): Google Inc is sprucing up its corporate e-mail service by adding new security tools and more than doubling the storage capacity of e-mail boxes. Underscoring the online search leader’s ambition to enlarge its role in the business software market, BBC TV reported.
The changes, to be unveiled on Wednesday, mark Google’s first attempt to capitalise on the technology that it picked up in its recently completed 625 million dollars acquisition of e-mail security specialist Postini Inc Google also is courting Postini’s existing customers as it tries to drum up more interest in a suite of online software applications that costs each user 50 dollars annually.
The roughly 36,000 businesses already using Postini products can get the software bundle, which includes word processing, spreadsheet and other programs besides e-mail, free through June 2008. After the free trial expires, Mountain View-based Google hopes to retain many of those businesses, which include more than 11 million individual users as customers. To make its corporate e-mail product even more enticing, Google has boosted the storage capacity of each individual mailbox to 25 gigabytes, up from 10 gigabytes previously. The storage capacity of individual accounts with Google’s free e-mail service, known as “Gmail,” will remain at just under three gigabytes.
Without providing a breakdown, Google says hundreds of thousands of businesses, government agencies and schools already use its software applications. That includes users relying on a free bundle of programs that are less sophisticated than the ones in the subscription version.
Source: Business Recorder
Date:10/8/2007
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