Google Partner Edition has Launched

This is big news for us, we've been looking forward to this day for close to a year now, to be able to formally integrate our open source ruby ERP XLsuite into google docs will both save us a ton of codding time as well as help us to leverage the security and brand awareness of Google.

We're very happy to hear this news and look forward to the integration process, I'm absolutely positive that this will be looked at as a major turning point in software and hosted SAS solution adoption by the business community.

Here is the official news from Googles Blog:

Google Apps Partner Edition

5/18/2007 08:42:00 AM

Posted by Hunter Middleton, Product Manager

From the beginning, we envisioned making Google Apps available to any organization that might want to offer this innovative set of services to its employees, customers, students, members, or any other associates of the organization. Today, we're excited to take another step in that direction by releasing a version of Google Apps specifically designed for ISPs, portals, and other service providers, whether you have a few thousand subscribers or over a million. This new version, which we're calling the Partner Edition, makes it easy for large and small service providers to offer your subscribers the latest versions of powerful tools, like Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Docs & Spreadsheets, without having to worry about hosting, updating, or maintaining any of the services yourself. All you have to do is point and click in the easy admin control panel and figure out what branding you'd like to layer on top of the products in order to create a customized look and feel. You can quit spending your resources and time on applications like webmail -- and leave the work to our busy bees at the Googleplex.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/google-apps-partner-edition.html