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Google Puts The Squeeze On Free Apps
- mikeyur 18y agoI don't know. I agree with Google on this one. There should be more people paying for this awesome service. And to be honest, 50 accounts is still a lot. Having 50 or so employees in a company is a fairly large company, companies with that many people can fork up $50/user/year
- adamc 18y agoThe question isn't really "can they" but "will they"? A lot of big companies have very cheap office deals.
- puzzle-out 18y agoThe only reason Google's competitors have not been charging for these kind of services is because Google hasn't been. I imagine many competitors want Google to make this move as then it allows then to do the same and start building some much needed revenue.
- PoweredByWill 18y agoMy advice to Google is to lower the user threshold, possibly as low as 12-25 and create a middle-tier pricing option. 1. Bootstrapped 2. SMB 3. Enterprise
- davidw 18y agoYeah, the prices are currently: 0-50 users: $0 50+ users: 50 * 50 = $2500 - ouch!
- jonknee 18y agoYikes, I thought it was 0-50 for free and any users past that were $50. So 51 users would be $50/yr. I guess you really have to justify that 51st employee :).
- cstejerean 18y agoWell, companies can upgrade well before they hit 50 users. You get extra space, no ads and premium support.
- jwesley 18y agoFor a company with 50+ employees, $2500 per year is not a major expense, relative to rent and payroll. Still vastly cheaper than MS Office.
- davidw 18y agoSure, but perhaps companies in the middle, with less than 50 employees, might be willing to spend some money, but not $50 a year per employee. Say, a 10 employee company - that's 500$ a year, which isn't huge, but not peanuts either. If Google could get 200$ out of them, and still make a profit, it seems like a win for everyone. No idea what their actual costs are, but they can't be that high if the advertising is anywhere close to covering them.
- Devilboy 18y agoWe use the paid gmail system in our office and it's the best thing that ever happened to our email infrastructure! Pretty cheap and super easy.