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Google is making a collection of tools—e-mail, instant messaging, and web page creation tools--available for businesses.
Customers, ranging from small businesses to universities, will be able to "private label" the services as their own although they will all be hosted on Google infrastructure. The beta goes live Monday.
That mimics what Microsoft plans to offer with its Office Live Essentials services pack, soon to hit beta. That hosted offering will give users a Web site personal domain names and e-mail addresses ,
At year's end, Google plans to offer a fee-based version of the bundle although pricing details were not available.
"Google Apps For Your Domain" melds existing gMail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, and Page Creator web page creation tool. It does not—as yet—bring in the Writely word processor or Google Spreadsheet, but such additions could be on the table, said Rajen Sheth, product manager for the services bundle.
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