Google just introduced an online-shop for business applications in order to further push their own competing suite of productivity software in enterprises and with Microsoft.
The opening of the app store has been expected for several weeks. Google will initially provide apps marketplace for about 50 companies, including Intuit, Concur, Jobvite, and eFax, etc. The applications on the market will work closely with Google’s online apps suite, which includes Gmail, Calendar and Docs. The market will makes it easier for the developers to showcase and sell their applications and Google Apps to the customers.
Currently 25 million people are using Google Apps in more than 2 million businesses. Google offers a free version of its Apps suite, and a paid version that costs businesses $ 50 per user per year. The apps store is going to be a multi-billion dollar business.