Some of Google’s products are about to become available through an entirely different company, thanks to a new deal with AAPT. The Australian telecommunications carrier “will be offering Google’s new enterprise search solution to its customers,” according to the terms of the agreement.
Fittingly enough, the Australian version of Computerworld carried news of the partnership. “The Google Search Appliance and Mini are priced from $75K and $5K respectively and AAPT will provide sales, installation and consulting support,” Sandra Rossi noted.
Rossi also reported several quotes from Gregg Roy, AAPT’s business solutions general manager. Roy implied that purchasing Google’s goodies (preferably from AAPT, I assume) is the only logical thing to do. “Why is it that you can Google information on the Web quicker than you can locate critical data within your own business?” he asked. “It doesn’t make sense.”
“We are continually finding new ways to increase our customer’s productivity and profitability not only with traditional telecommunications services but also now with ICT solutions,” Roy continued.
Interestingly enough, it seems that Google and AAPT were involved in a bit of a legal tiff not too long ago. According to The Age, another phone company was “caught using the trademark of competitor AAPT to advertise mobile phone deals on Google” in April of 2006. The whole thing was resolved peacefully, though – turns out it was a middleman’s fault.
And now AAPT’s all set to hawk the Mini, as well as the Google Search Appliance. The latter, as it’s described by Google, “provides robust, scalable and secure search across virtually all the information in your company.” The former, as you might have guessed, is a smaller version.
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