Google Apps has 1 million education users

by billso on Wednesday, 6 August 2008

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.

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