Google Gmail, Docs, Calendar and Talk exit beta for Google Apps, potentially removing a major barrier to the adoption of Google Apps in the enterprise as a messaging and collaboration platform. Also, Fairchild Semiconductor dumps Lotus Notes for Google Apps. With these moves, Google hopes more business customers will choose its pay-for GAPE service over suites from Microsoft, IBM, Cisco and others.
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Google July 7 took its core Google Apps out of beta and
said Fairchild Semiconductor has moved its 5,500 employees to Google Apps Premier
Edition (GAPE) from IBM Lotus Notes, the latest coup for the company’s growing
effort in cloud computing.
Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar a…