Google Apps Education Edition Breaks One Million Users

This is an impressive achievement that is almost certain to continue to grow. Giving Google Apps to schools seems an obvious win-win. The school get a reliable suite of web products that many students are already familiar with. They also get what is likely a more reliable and easier to manage suite of web products. In return Google is able to reinforce and/or spread its brand to the students. Google also receives some positive PR (public relations), and with the new or continuing users the now standard add revenue stream.


Google Blog
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/back-to-school-with-more-than-1-million.html

"Google Apps is rapidly gaining momentum in education. We now have more than a million people on campuses worldwide actively using Google's suite of email, calendar and docs to share information and study. This makes perfect sense. Schools have always been a proving ground for innovative ideas. And as we prepare for the new school year, we are happy to welcome more than a dozen universities across the U.S., joining the thousands of other schools that have already embraced cloud computing in education."