Google: We Have Stronger Products Than Microsoft
Crn.com writes, "Stephen Cho, director of Google Apps Channels, spoke with Channelweb.com Senior Vice President Robert DeMarzo, Editor/News Steven Burke and Assistant News Editor Scott Campbell about the new Google Apps Premier Edition Reseller program.
The partner program, the Mountain View, Calif.-based company’s first formal channel offering around the Google Apps Premier Edition product set, offers solution providers 20 percent discounts, which translates to recurring revenue of $10-per-year on a $50-per-user, per-year-subscription fee. Google said that partners will maintain the billing relationship with the customer and prepay Google in advance for each one-year subscription. Partners will be able to start deploying Google Apps Premier Edition seats in March.
The channel program pits Google directly against Microsoft’s wildly-popular Office packaged software applications suite and Windows Live Essentials. "
