Google Apps reseller Cloud Sherpas is expanding to the West Coast, thanks to an acquisition of smaller rival Omnetic.
Terms of the deal, announced June 2, were not made public.
Cloud Sherpas is the largest reseller of the Google Apps
cloud computing collaboration suite in the United States. The
Atlanta-based company has migrated more than 800,000 users from legacy
collaboration systems such as Microsoft Office
and IBM Lotus Notes and Domino to Google’s suite of Web-based word
processing, spreadsheet and presentation apps.
Google currently sells Google Apps for Business to
companies for $50 per user, per year. The company, whose cash is made mostly in
search advertising, also relies on a
fleet of authorized resellers, such as Cloud Sherpas, Appirio, LTech and
Omnetic, to help penetrate the broad and deep enterprise market.
To date, Cloud Sherpas has been reselling Google Apps
from its Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Austin, Chicago, New York and
Philadelphia offices. However, the company lacked a West Coast presence to help add
to its recurring revenue streams culled from managed Apps seats in
nearly 300 customers.
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