What is Google Apps?

Question

What is google apps and why are so many startup companies using it?

Answer 1

Google Apps is a collection of business software components delivered as a service, saving you from having to install Exchange, Office and the usual business stuff. Plus Google Apps allows people to write their own apps and install them on Google's servers. A lot of companies use Google Apps for email and calendering instead of Exchange these days. It saves costs.

Answer 2

One useful feature of Google apps is that it allows you to use the gmail interface to host email on google's servers for your own domain. So you can send/recieve email with an @example.com address (if your startup was called example.com).

Answer 3

Sure you mean google apps and not app engine?

http://code.google.com/appengine/