Posted AT 10:45 AM EDT on 27/09/07
Why pay for the cow if the milk's almost free?
Quite a few employees at Level Consulting Ltd. were already using Google Inc.'s online applications and Gmail e-mail service, so when the tech giant introduced a business package called Google Apps Premier Edition last February, the company known as the Level was quick to sign up.
Running an e-mail system in-house had been a hassle, says Michael Read, the chief technology officer at the Level, a content-management software provider in Vancouver.
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