In an article I read in a magazine, (remember those?)called Information Week this week they discuss a Cloud company that is folding. Coghead.
Won't bore you with the details but a new business will be popping up from Binary Tree probably any day now announcing how to migrate from Gmail.
Anyway, Google pricing in the article is interesting:
With Google's first-time payment structure for the previously free-with-quotas Google App Engine, customers pay 10 cents per CPU core hour, 10 cents per gigabyte of traffic in, 12 cents per gigabyte of traffic out, 15 cents per gigabyte of data stored per month, and $1 per 10,000 e-mails sent.
EDITED to just say
Once you let someone or something else manage for you it will cost you in the long run, maybe not today or tomorrow but....
Google Checkout prices are going up too http://tinyurl.com/dhlyyt
ReplyDeleteDid you even read the article? Google App Engine is a PaaS offering for web based applications. Why are you applying this pricing model (which is extremely competitive) to corporate email?
ReplyDeleteJeff, Sorry but in this case I do not see it the way you do. As a user of Google apps for corporate email(conduit to Notes as cheaper than a spam soluton), some of my clients are not happy with this decision.
ReplyDeleteMarie, Google checkout was expected to raise rates but I am not so up on the percentage of people that use it.
ReplyDeleteFor that matter I stopped using my paypal account a few years ago.
Marie, Google checkout was expected to raise rates but I am not so up on the percentage of people that use it.
ReplyDeleteFor that matter I stopped using my paypal account a few years ago.
Read the article. Google App Engine and Google Apps are COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PRODUCTS. Google Apps is not priced per gigabyte.
ReplyDeleteJeff,
ReplyDeleteI respect your opinion and upon further review find the online article differs from the print one.
I had found what looked like the print article and felt I should post it, but it is not exactly the original. And to be fair I did not read the full article when linking it and my cursory review of it the second time did not notice the s missing from google app.
The original article did not differentiate as well as this article did to what part of Google it referred.
So my apologies to you and the readership. I will/am editing the article appropriately.