For some, that may have led to a bit of soul-searching over the viability of Google's Web-based applications as a foundation for an enterprise. But according to a Jan. 30 report released by Technology Business Research, more than 10 million individuals from over 1 million businesses—including 3 million active users from educational institutions—have chosen Google Apps as their enterprise software.

This represents "slow and steady progress in attracting enterprise and SMB [small and midsize business] customers to [the] Google Apps suite of office and communication tools," according to the TBR report.

"Right now we have more than 3,000 businesses every day signing up for [Google Apps], up from 2,000 a day a year ago," Andrew Kovacs, a Google spokesperson, said in an interview. "We're seeing some benefit from current economic conditions, where people are looking to save money, and Google's an easy way for them to do that."

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