In the little world of tech, The Word Beta is of Importance. To enterprises it suggests that a product is still undergoing tests and not quite ready for prime time. In most cases, beta periods can last a few weeks or a few months until the final release version is available.
Today, after a half a decade or so, Google’s Gmail has officially shed the Beta label, along with a handful of other Google Apps. For normal users its same old business, but for enterprises it means that finally they can consider it to be useful for their organization.
From the official Google blog post:
We’ve come to appreciate that the beta tag just doesn’t fit for large enterprises that aren’t keen to run their business on software that sounds like it’s still in the trial phase. So we’ve focused our efforts on reaching our high bar for taking products out of beta, and all the applications in the Apps suite have now met that mark.
Will it take the share out of Microsoft Exchange and Lotus? Time will tell…
But do you think that Google has taken too much of time do do this. Lets read what the company says for itself on the official blog..
We’re also launching a tool that will be particularly useful to administrative support staff to screen and send email on behalf of others – a feature called email delegation. And to help customers comply with regulations that may exist specific to their industry, we’re adding email retention so that IT administrators can set up policies to determine when email will be purged. Both retention and delegation are in testing with customers, and will start rolling out to all Premier edition domains over the next weeks.
Finally, we’re continuing to implement additional procedures to ensure that our business customers enjoy even greater reliability: live replication of data to other locations for near-instant disaster recovery, and special handling of business users’ data in our data center operations.
What do you think?
Enjoy…
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