Google Apps is something new ...
Google describes it here:
http://code.google.com/appengine/
Computerworld describes it here:
"http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9075698"
Google is offering to host entire applications on their own super-sized
hardware/software environment, providing all sorts of amenities like (of course)
scalability, reliability, security, etc.
In essence, they are offering to be the 'operations department'
for anyone's web-based application.
They currently have a "beta" release, free, for developers to try out.
So ... here I am, trying it out.