G-mail; Business Edition Upgrade

[† shinji]

Google’s acquisition of e-mail security vendor Postini is paying off for Google Apps enterprise users, who Wednesday are gaining access to extra security and compliance features. The Google Apps Premier Edition will remain at its current price tag of US$50 per user, per year, despite significant upgrades based on Postini’s software-as-a-service offerings, Google officials say. Google is also upping Gmail capacity for Premier Edition users from 10GB to 25GB. Both moves could help Google compete against the Microsoft Office set of workplace tools, which has long dominated the business market. Google is quickly ramping up the feature set for Apps Premier Edition, says Gartner analyst Tom Austin, who says he counted 37 significant enhancements to the software-as-a-service platform between February and June.

Google added a presentations application last month to Apps, which already included e-mail, calendaring, instant messaging, voice chat, documents and spreadsheets. Gmail already had spam and virus blockers, but now Google Apps Premier Edition gives businesses new configurable options, such as a whitelist and centrally managed content policy to filter messages that contain certain words or attachments. The Postini features also let administrators add footers to every outbound message, so you don’t have to rely on employees adding text describing e-mail confidentiality policies. I understand these extra features may be interesting for certain users, but Gmail’s free mailbox is already so powerfull and feature-rich I don’t really see a need for paying for something you can get for free.

Source; http://www.rlslog.net/google-updates-business-email-features/

I agree, Why would you want to pay for Gmail if you've already got such a great basic-free version.! All you're really paying for is more space ...

[Koby]

I would not spend $50 a year for that even if gmail didn't have a free version.

I'd sooner switch to whatever@forgottenmem.net haha.

I currently only set forwards on my domain emails to send them to my gmail though.

Gmail is by far the best free email service though.

[† shinji]

Haha, but what if you didn't have a domain? ;p.

..we wouldn't even be talking about it! =o

or we'd still be on invisionfree. .. haha.

yeah, Gmail is the best but i still use Hotmail.. too used to it to change over to Gmail..