Google Buys Postini To Entice Big Companies to its Hosted Apps
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Google, which as we all know (wink, wink, nod, nod) isn't competing with Microsoft, is acquiring privately held Postini for around $625 million cash. The deal just coincidently happens to strengthen its applications push into the enterprise, which may explain why Google is paying more for it - less whatever Postini's got in the bank - than it has for anything else except YouTube and DoubleClick, if the government doesn't stop the DoubleClick deal. Postini provides patented on-demand security and compliance services for e-mail and instant messages, which should fit divinely with Google's enterprise-bent hosted applications kit and give Google a built-in reservoir of the 35,000 companies or 10 million users that Postini services to go trolling in for new, paying, Google Apps Premier Edition users
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