Google Operating System reports that it will soon in Australia and New Zealand once "Strong Internal Metrics" are met.

I guess we should expect the same in other nations.

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/08/gmail-without-invitation-in-australia.html

cool..
sounds great.. thanks for the info Sohil.. :)

Note: They didn't actually say it would be out of beta "soon" – they just said it would be out of beta once "strong internal metrics" are met.

<< "We'll take Gmail out of beta once we feel we've met these metrics," the spokesperson said. >>

Nobody mentioned when this might be. It could be 2010 for all we know!

lol...
yeah ive just read it..
too bad :/

But tony do you think it will take that much years to come out ?

Yo see microsoft which introduced Windows XP and now its giving out Patches......

I think it's just a fancy way Google has of saying we're screwing Yahoo and Microsoft.

Are they really having Internal Metric problems ? I doubt it.

Wow, this was digged (not this site just the story)

http://digg.com/tech_news/Gmail_coming_out_of_Beta

The site that was digged is down. Google doesn't have the Cache. Coral is too slow and Wayback Machine didn't find anything.

[Moved from "No need for Gmail invites in Australia and New Zealand" – Tony]

http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php?id=1930490443&eid=-108 claims Australian and New Zealand residents can sign up without an invite. I'm in Australia and below the login box there's a link to http://mail.google.com/mail/signup titled "Sign up for Gmail". Accessing this url via the US (via ssh using lynx ;-) just goes to the Gmail front page, which still shows "Sign up for Gmail using your mobile phone".