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| | Google offers business software via subscription | Technology | Reuters |
 | | More than 100,000 small businesses use the existing free, advertising-supported Google Apps service, while hundreds of universities around the world already are using a free version of the service that is free of ads, Google officials said. |
 | | By breaking with the traditional business software approach of installing software on individual personal computers, Google believes it can attract large numbers of business users that go underserved by the likes of Microsoft Corp., IBM, Oracle Corp. or SAP AG. |
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