Google is expected to boost its existing applications store by letting third-party developers sell software that hooks into its collaboration applications, the Wall Street Journal reported Feb. 2. The store could be an extension of Google’s Solutions Marketplace for third-party programs, allowing programmers to write enhanced security features or import contacts for Google Apps and sell them to customers. Google’s goal is to foster more adoption of Google Apps. While the suite has more than 2 million businesses using it, Microsoft and IBM have come to the cloud computing club with hosted versions of their collaboration applications.
– Google is expected to augment its existing applications store to let
third-party developers sell software that hooks into its collaboration
applications, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Google Apps is a suite of SAAS (software as a service) applications the
search engine offers in free and…