Google presented this July 14th Google Apps Migration for Lotus Notes. It is a program designed to help users of the popular email application IBM Lotus Notes to move their mail, calendar and contacts to cloud computing service Gmail.

The change marks the latest step in Google search for customers of IBM (Lotus Notes) and Microsoft (Exchange) switch to the tools for collaboration and messaging, Internet-based Google. These are the leaders of the broad market for corporate email, with 70% with Microsoft and IBM with 17%.

Google Apps Migration for Lotus Notes is a native Notes application, which means that installs as an application in a Lotus Notes server and communicates with the data from the Google API.

The tool is free for customers of Google Apps Premier Edition, which costs $ 50 per user per year.

Google says that migration is easy and doesn’t require downtime (users can continue using Notes for the migration process).

Fairchild Semiconductor, and Hamilton Beach JohnsonDiversey Valeo (via Capgemini) are four of the 40 companies that have already used the migration of Google Apps for the implementation of Lotus Notes.These four companies moved nearly 50,000 users of Lotus Notes to Google Apps.

The tool comes more than a month after it was published on June 9th by Google Apps Google Sync for Microsoft Outlook, a plug-in that allows users to access the webmail for Gmail, its calendar and contacts through the Google interface.