Today Economic Times reported about the benefits of FOSS as analyzed by a study according to the Professor Rahul De of IIM Bangaloare. That’s good, superb we already knew about the benefits of FOSS, but yes now we have a study backed up by one of the geniuses of the country. However isn’t it that it has already been there? The LIC using it, or the Govt. of Kerala leveraging the benefits FOSS Technologies. Same goes with corporates, they have always preferred Sendmail over Microsoft Exchange, and Linux over Windows and more and more FOSS when it comes to Server technologies. Organizations have been using OpenOffice.ORG from past so many years to save upon their costs.

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You want to start your own website / blog or any other damn thing or simply you just want to buy a domain name with your name and contact information on your home page but you also do want a reliable source that won’t ditch you for the coming years – so you Google. Internet has given a lot to people out there, internet has grown to an extent unimaginable and even with existence of search engines like Big G-Google remains untamed. In February 2006, Google shouted with another innovative roar – “Google Apps for your Domain“, that left other co’s in dilemma as to what will we do ?

Google Apps for your Domain is a set of tightly integrated services from Google. It gives your organization a quick start over the web, it includes customizable GMail based eMail service, Google Talk, Google Docs, Google Calender and Google Pages.

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