Finally after 5 long years GOOGLE’S GMAIL has lost distinction of being the longest running program on the market to retain a “beta” designation.
Rajan Seth,senior product manager for Google Apps, said that Google had woken up one morning and decided that the software had met all its goals for “feature completeness”. He also said “We’re taking the beta label off of Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk to remove any doubt that Apps is a mature product suite. “
Practically speaking, the change will mean precious little to Gmail’s millions of users.
But it could help Google’s efforts to get the paid version of its package of applications, which includes Gmail, Calendar, Docs and other products, adopted inside big companies. Corporate technology managers tend to shy away from beta products, and Google wants to remove any barriers to adoption that it can.
I guess Google finally decided to take off the Beta considering the fact that generally many CIO’s generally shut doors for product labeled ‘beta’.
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