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google providing suite of business apps

from the article:

On Aug. 28, the Mountain View (Calif.) search-engine company unveiled Google Apps for Your Domain, a bundle of programs—e-mail, schedule management, instant messaging, Internet phone calling, and Web site creation—integrated for small businesses. The company could eventually add its hosted spreadsheet and word-processing applications to the bundle, though it has no formal plans to do so, says a Google spokesperson.

The Google programs are all available over the Web, so companies don't have to go through the process of installing them on office computers, unlike Microsoft Office.