Google Inc is sprucing up its corporate email service by adding new security tools and more than doubling the storage capacity of Email boxes. Underscoring the online search leader's ambition to enlarge its role in the business software market. The changes to the unveiled, mark Google's first attempt to capitalize on the technology that it picked up in its recently completed USD 625 million acquisition of email security specialist postini inc.
Google also is courting postinin's existing customers as it tries to drum up more interest in a suite of online software applications that cost each user USD 50 annually. The roughly 36000 business already using postini products can get the software bundle, which includes world processing, spread sheets and other program besides email free through June 2008 . After the free trial expires, mountain view-based Google hopes to retain many of those business, which include more than 11 million individual users, as customers. To make its corporate email product even more enticing, Google has boasted the storage capacity of each individual mail box to 25 GBs up from 10 GBs previously. The storage capacity of individual accounts with Google's free email service, Known as "Gmail, " will remain at just under 3 GBs without providing a breakdown, Google says hundreds of thousands of businesses, govt agencies and schools already use its software applications that includes users relying on a free bundle of program that are less sophisticated than the ones in the subscription version.
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