Google has announced it plans to go after the likes of Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, and IBM with Google Apps Premier Edition, offering businesses ramped up versions of its Web-based Google applications with phone support, 10 GB of storage, and 99.9 percent uptime guarantees for $50/year per person.
Google Apps Premier Edition will roll together the company’s GMail email service, along with Google Calendar, Google Talk, the Web authoring tool Start Page, along with word processing and spreasheet features with Google Docs & Spreadsheets. Google also announced that GMail now supports Gmail for Blackberry mobile devices, widely deployed in enterprise and government settings.
