Google has announced that there are over 1 million users for the education version of Google Apps. this doesn’t surprise me at all, as Google is offering very low per seat pricing on these contracts.
It’s always been difficult for universities to manage their email and messaging systems. Email is the lowest common denominator for Internet users, which is one reason why phishers, scammers and crackers target email users. Everyone on the Internet has at least one email account.
University users have adopted social media en masse as an alternative to email. But that doesn’t mean that email is not important. It’s still mission critical for universities.
See this announcement, Back to school with over 1 million users worldwide, for a list of universities and schools that are adopting Google’s enterprise cloud computing solutions.
Related articles and pages on billso.com
- 9 July 2008: Is email in danger from microblogging?
- 12 May 2008: Software and services - free or paid?
- 22 April 2008: It’s 2008 and email is still broken
- 11 April 2007: Google wants to hear about your university email service
- 23 February 2007: Google Apps vs Microsoft Office
- 7 December 2006: Spam is back with a vengeance
- 22 August 2006: 95 percent of all e-mail is UCE
- 4 August 2004: E-mail is broken
