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Google partners with business application firms to develop OneBox for Enterprise
Google is partnering with major business application companies such as Oracle, Salesforce.com, Cisco, Cognos, Employease, NetSuite, and SAS to develop the Google OneBox for Enterprise appliance and extend search within business. The application, which is a server that can be attached to customers’ data centers, will enable users to conduct secure searches on all the company data using the Google search interface. Dave Girouard, vice president and general manager of Google’s enterprise business noted, “Companies spend a lot of money on applications and ‘search’ has the potential to become the unifying element to any application.” Google plans to open up the development interfaces for OneBox to the developer community, system integrators and software vendors to create their own modules to extend its capabilities to applications from other vendors. The appliance can be obtained at a fixed license cost. Google does not intend to make ad revenue from this product.

[From marketclusters.com]