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Google Issues $2 Apps Credit After GMail Outage

Loren Baker

02/25/09

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Google is apologizing for the major 12 to 15 hour GMail outage which occured Monday night with a 15 day credit for businesses or organizations which pay for Google Apps services. At $50 annually per user, that 15 day credit is worth about $2 per Google Apps user for these companies.

Sure, perhaps a mall drop in the bucket, but the real value here is that if Google is going ot branch out into the desktop / mobile / iPhone / online & offline professional alternative to Outlook or Office, they’re going to have to find a way to stop these outages from happening… especially if such an outage is crippling the communications of a business which may even be relying on Google for VOIP.

Such outages may have been blips in blogger news a couple of years ago, but now they can cost millions worldwide to companies depending on Google.

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