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Business users pay $50/seat/year after the 100th user. That's how they make money. Btw, Microsoft is similar. I bet that legit sales to individuals are tiny com

Business users pay $50/seat/year after the 100th user. That's how they make money. Btw, Microsoft is similar. I bet that legit sales to individuals are tiny compared to corporate sales.

pasbesoin 16y ago
It's $50/seat/year, no matter how many users. The "Standard" version (they've renamed it to something else, now) has lower quotas and no (non-bulletin board) support. It also now has a cap of 50 seats (used to be higher). For a while, you could only do video hosting and some other things on the business/"Premier" plan; not sure about now. Academic/non-profit is "free", but you have to prove your status somehow. I still argue it's a bargain for the "average" business, compared to trying to host and manage this stuff yourself. I don't know how good the support is, though -- the rest of Google's individual / customer level support leaves me rather doubtful. I also don't know what happens when the subpoenas start flying. If they ever establish HIPAA compliance/certification (I don't know whether it is worth their while), they may get a "bazillion" health care providers. Especially if that "whatever is currently their health records management offer" thing works out. But that would put them in the middle, as the records holder, of an awful lot of litigation. From that perspective, it might be a real loser for them. (Maybe the lobbyists are already working on this vis à vis some favorable legislation.)
- anonymous246 16y ago
  Hmm, ok. I just assumed that the Google Apps for Domains that I use for my personal domain could be used by for-profits too.
  - pasbesoin 16y ago
    It can. But you have the lower space quotas, limited (more limited?) support, and a cap of 50 user accounts. After that, you have to go "Premier" (or whatever it's named, now), and then its $50/year/seat for all seats, as I understand it. For a small business with limited resources, the free "Standard" version may be fine. Especially if you're backing up and it's not a critical failure point. Of course, for most businesses, this would likely not be the case and it would become so. But if you are small and only have a seat or three, $50 - $150 / year is pretty cheap for what they offer (including however many 9's of availability). You can even get a public web site out of it (the property formerly known as Jotspot), as long as you can live with their templates and/or restrictions. And with that, a WYSIWYG editor that a normal mortal might actually manage to use mostly effectively -- especially for smaller changes to text after the site is established. (And you know a random herd of traffic isn't going to take the host down.) EDIT: But I would definitely register the domain name somewhere else. Google will sell you a registration during set up, but IMHO that may be asking for trouble if you ever want to move it, particularly at the free/Standard level.

Business users pay $50/seat/year after the 100th user. That's how they make money. Btw, Microsoft is similar. I bet that legit sales to individuals are tiny compared to corporate sales.

pasbesoin 16y ago

It's $50/seat/year, no matter how many users. The "Standard" version (they've renamed it to something else, now) has lower quotas and no (non-bulletin board) support. It also now has a cap of 50 seats (used to be higher). For a while, you could only do video hosting and some other things on the business/"Premier" plan; not sure about now. Academic/non-profit is "free", but you have to prove your status somehow. I still argue it's a bargain for the "average" business, compared to trying to host and manage this stuff yourself. I don't know how good the support is, though -- the rest of Google's individual / customer level support leaves me rather doubtful. I also don't know what happens when the subpoenas start flying. If they ever establish HIPAA compliance/certification (I don't know whether it is worth their while), they may get a "bazillion" health care providers. Especially if that "whatever is currently their health records management offer" thing works out. But that would put them in the middle, as the records holder, of an awful lot of litigation. From that perspective, it might be a real loser for them. (Maybe the lobbyists are already working on this vis à vis some favorable legislation.)

anonymous246 16y ago
Hmm, ok. I just assumed that the Google Apps for Domains that I use for my personal domain could be used by for-profits too.
- pasbesoin 16y ago
  It can. But you have the lower space quotas, limited (more limited?) support, and a cap of 50 user accounts. After that, you have to go "Premier" (or whatever it's named, now), and then its $50/year/seat for all seats, as I understand it. For a small business with limited resources, the free "Standard" version may be fine. Especially if you're backing up and it's not a critical failure point. Of course, for most businesses, this would likely not be the case and it would become so. But if you are small and only have a seat or three, $50 - $150 / year is pretty cheap for what they offer (including however many 9's of availability). You can even get a public web site out of it (the property formerly known as Jotspot), as long as you can live with their templates and/or restrictions. And with that, a WYSIWYG editor that a normal mortal might actually manage to use mostly effectively -- especially for smaller changes to text after the site is established. (And you know a random herd of traffic isn't going to take the host down.) EDIT: But I would definitely register the domain name somewhere else. Google will sell you a registration during set up, but IMHO that may be asking for trouble if you ever want to move it, particularly at the free/Standard level.