Pixar transfers the in-house system to "Google Apps for Your Domain"

Pixar · Animation · Studio has developed "Google Apps for Your Domain" provided by Google from in-house systems of Microsoft Exchange and Outlook so far, "Google Apps for Your DomainThe service will be switched to the service provided under the name of. The reason is that various types of personal computers are running inside Pixar and it is difficult to respond to them, he said he chose an online service that can be easily used from the browser.

Also, within the next few weeks, we are also reporting that Google is considering charging a fee for companies using this "Google Apps for Your Domain". It is said that this is a "premium version"Here is the page. It seems that the monthly usage fee per employee is a few dollars, but finally Google finally seems to step into the realm of Microsoft clearly.

Details are as follows. You can see the business situation in the USA that is different from Japan.
Google Steps Into Microsoft's Office

Douglas Merrill, vice president of engineering at Google, says, "General consumer web applications have reached a level sufficient for companies to use for the first time," he said, already belonging to thousands of organizations Hundreds of thousands of users are using this "Google Apps for Your Domain", and as an example of a larger organization, Arizona State University will hold 65,000 students belonging this month as Gmail, Google Calendar, customized It is said that it plans to shift to the start page.

But Microsoft is not silent,"Office Live Beta" that can acquire domain names free of charge and build sitesWe have already launched the service called Free Plan to Pay Plan, which Google estimates that about 250,000 SMEs are using this "Office Live Beta" service. Around this time there is a difference between Microsoft that was developed with awareness of service provision from the beginning for business and Google that started service for general users.

So beyond the ocean, apparently in the US it seems that competition for business users will primarily start between Microsoft's office product suite and new web services, Google's web services, and so on. What will happen in Japan?