I picked this up from Robert Scoble’s shared items in Google Reader.

A good source tells me that Google will soon announce the selling of a premium version of their Google Apps service for $50 per year and user. Named Google Apps Premier Edition, this package will include 10 gigabytes of email storage. The service will have a 24 hour tech support as well as a promised uptime of 99.9%. Blackberrys will be able to have mobile access to emails. The package will also include Google’s Docs & Spreadsheets program, that is, word processing and Google’s Excel clone.

I’ve been using GMail for about 18 months and can’t imagine life without it. I also use Google Calendar (though I also like and use 30Boxes), and have twiddled with the Docs and Spreadsheets apps, though I haven’t really considered them serious replacements for MS Word or Excel at this point. But 10 GB of mail storage, BlackBerry push, and linkage with a specific domain is a pretty powerful package. This could be very interesting at $50/user per year.

Oh — I share my Google Reader items, too — you can subscribe to it here. I really like Google reader — it has just about every feature I can imagine wanting, it’s fast, and versatile. Now that they’re reporting RSS subscribers on the blog, it’s just about perfect.

Update: It looks like it’s live.

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