We like internal IT. We think it’s vital from a company management and legal point of view. We also strongly believe in giving your users the tools they need to do their job. So while we see a need for Google Apps Team Edition for very small and small companies, we think that as soon as you have your IT infrastructure in your own control, it should be banned in-house.

What is it? It’s a simple to set up version of Googles’ existing web-based applications - word processing, spreadsheet, calendar, instant messaging and Start page. It doesn’t contain Gmail for the moment. It allows users sharing the same email domain to easily collaborate with each other, sharing documents and calendars.

It’s free for the moment, and does allow for upgrading to the other Google Apps products.

However, I’d still have my corporate data in my server, thanks.

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