When we covered the Nexus One Enterprise Edition a couple of months ago, we said Google needed to offer an improved Exchange solution. Today, Google Enterprise rolled out Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange, a new server-side tool that migrates a company's e-mail, calendar and contact data from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps.
Google promises an easy 4-step process that migrates hundreds of users at the same time, and employees can continue to use Microsoft Exchange during the migration without interruption or any involvement on their part. The tool works with Microsoft Exchange 2003 and 2007, and both on-premise and hosted Exchange. It's available free to Google Apps Premier and Education customers here. The company also offers live webinars to learn more about Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange.
In other words, rather than improving the Exchange experience for Android, Google is basically aiming to get all Android users to start using Google Apps, enterprise users included. The Nexus One Enterprise Edition that Google is currently building will likely downplay Exchange and offer enterprises incentives to move all employees to Google Apps.
Free navigation tools are already becoming a hit in the smartphone world with Google Maps with Navigation and Nokia's Ovi Maps, and we guess the Google Nexus One Enterprise Edition will pull off something similar by offering Google Apps Premier Edition for a lower annual fee or simply for free.
It's worth noting that Research In Motion recently started offering BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express (BESX) for free to SMB customers, while hosted Exchange is already pretty cheap. If you ask us, there's a heavy business and enterprise solutions battle on the horizon.
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