[dba-Tech] Is Google docs gone?

Hi Jim, google apps is no longer free for anyone at all. Google apps is googles service that allows you to use googles web applications under your domain name. For a personal user, this is more of a vanity thing, as you can get  everything as normal, but only under a @gmail.com address (whereas I'm able to use googles services under my @phulse.com domain).

- Hans


On 2013-02-07, at 8:36 AM, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi Mark:
> 
> I like the Google products. 
> 
> Many companies depend on them, though I am not as up in what is the current
> state-of-the-art when it comes to Google or any part of the industry for
> that matter. Being free products there is always the danger, especially if a
> third-party company becomes very reliant on the specific app just to find
> the pricing structure has dramatically changed or the product has been
> abandoned.
> 
> So Google Apps are not sold as a bundle? (Excluding GMail of course) I
> thought the pricing had recently changed? ...or is the bundle still fee for
> single users?
> 
> Jim
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 6:30 AM
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> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Is Google docs gone?
> 
> Hello Jim,
> 
> Google have made Google Apps a paid for service.  This effects people that
> want to use company based google services all integrated with the company
> domain name.
> 
> Gmail is still free, and so is the docs and calendar associated with single
> accounts.  If you want free collaborative docs and spreadsheets, the google
> offering is still one of the best.
> 
> Incidentally, I still have in my google docs a *Writely* doc which my
> daughter created and shared online years ago, before Google purchased
> Writely.com.
> 
> 
> thanks
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 7 February 2013 04:12, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
>> Hi All:
>> 
>> Before Google decided to make its Docs package pay-as-you-go, the company
>> that owned it made the original source OSS. It was subsequently completely
>> rewritten.
>> 
>> So now you can still do collaborative notes with the Open Source version
>> and
>> export the contents to a variety of formats. For viewing and testing you
>> can
>> check out the demo at Mozilla called MoPad. It now runs on Node.js:
>> 
>> https://etherpad.mozilla.org/
>> 
>> If you want to use this EtherPad application at your office, home or
>> share-it on the web, you can download it install it and run it across you
>> web sites/internally or externally and even run it in an iFrame on
> intranet
>> (internet) your web pages...and as you would expect it is fast...very very
>> fast.
>> 
>> http://etherpad.org/
>> 
>> It will also give you a good reason to have Node.js install on your Linux
>> server.
>> 
>> Aside: If you want to get started it will take a few steps to install but
>> nothing too challenging. If stumped, don't know where to start or just
>> being
>> cautious during the installation, drop a post the DBA-Tech.
>> 
>> Jim
>> 
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