While Microsoft is busy courting Yahoo to accept its buyout proposal, Google is silently building up its corporate email security product. Through the email security technology of its recently acquired Postini, Google seemed to be enhancing its business application infrastructure, a market that Microsoft has dominated with its office suite products.
Through Postini, Google is launching new business products that are designed to weed out junk mail and potential viruses while protecting against leaks of confidential information via e-mail. Spam and private information phishing are the major setbacks of most email application suites.
The new business products which are priced from $3 to $25 per user, are said to be compatible with Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes and Novell Groupwise.
Google says that there already hundreds of thousands of businesses, government agencies and schools that are using its business software application, including users of Google’s less sophisticated free programs.
Relating this to the current buzz about the possible Yahoo-Microsoft merger, Google may very well prepare in other avenues where it would be facing tough competition. And an office application suite is one of them.
This sounds pretty good. I wonder what the cost would be. I have used many tools for my egyptian mau website that google offers and I am very impressed.
Google has the best anti spam in the business. When all our emails are flooded, we turn to our trusty gmail accounts!
It makes sense that they apply this expertise to revenue generating endeavours.
This is interesting…this corporate email security product will definitely be something to look forward to…as Matt mentioned above,Google indeed has the best anti spam in the business.