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Google Beta Testing "Gmail For Your Domain"

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the google-google-everywhere dept.

ndansmith writes "Google is looking for organizations to beta test its new hosted email service. From the information page: 'This special beta test lets you give Gmail, Google's webmail service, to every user at your domain. Gmail for your domain is hosted by Google, so there's no hardware or software for you to install or maintain.' The beta test is limited, but Google is accepting open applications."

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  1. Re:Maybe if they offered IMAP by rm69990 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Well, Gmail, like Google's other services, is run on Linux servers, just like their Search Appliance. They could offer internal Gmail as an add-on for the search appliance/mini, or make a whole new Gmail appliance. It could be a new business model for Google.

    When you consider the hardware is already in place at Google with their search appliance, they wouldn't lose too much money if it wasn't successful. And it's not like Google doesn't have lots of money to piss away ($8 billion with zero debt currently according to Yahoo! Finance) anyways.