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Too bad Going Google (Premier) limits you to that 25 GB/user...

There is no extra storage. None. I will be reaching my 25 GB limit by August 1st. I pay Google my $50 per Google Apps user and I can only get 25 GB. No more space. Period. WTF is up with that? I can't even pay for an extra user and get that space assigned to my user.

Now I have to plan a setup for my own email server and migrate all my friggin data if Google doesn't add this soon.

Thanks, Google, for forcing me to DELETE email or move...

(I'm a paying Google Apps user who only wants to get the feature Gmail accounts get, Extra effing Storage for a price).

I agree you should be able to buy more space (especially since you can with @gmail accounts), but what are your storing that adds up to so much space? I have 5,000 messages stored in my Google Apps account and it only adds up to 871MB.

I'm storing all my email since '03 (I had a major Outlook PST corruption and lost all mail prior to '03 before I IMAP-ed all my emails up to Google Apps)

It's just every single piece of email I've received or sent out during that time and while it also includes emails w/photos sent to friends and stuff like that, as well as work-related email, I want to keep every single one of those messages.

PS: Right now I have 68937 messages in my All Mail folder when checked out via IMAP and I'm using 23176 MB (90%) of my 25600 MB. And it's growing by about 1GB every month so I'm running out of time...

You must do a lot more attachments than me--my All Mail folder in IMAP has 22,019 messages. Each of your messages is taking up 1/3 of a MB, yikes.

A lot of back and forthing of Word documents, some of them 10-20 MBs in size... but hey, it's work, I have to do it.

I'm not sure about the name "Gone Google". Before visiting the site I thought it was going to be for people who were trying to avoid Google...

That was my first impression to...

Yeh seems that gogoogle would be more appropriate. Also, interesting that they chose Flash for this.

They're advertising to a corporate audience who may still be on IE6/IE7, I can imagine that's why.

Google has been embracing flash like crazy lately, partially to differentiate from Apple. Froyo will support it, as will Chrome OS. Seems natural enough to me. IE6 / IE7 support makes sense too.

Just Flash support. Didn’t sound to me as though Google actually likes Flash.

Something more active-voice like GoingGoogle would work better. But they should consider losing the "going/gone" thing altogether and pick another word. UpgradeToGoogle or something.

I thought it had something to do with "Going Galt".

A great example of teeing people up to sell Google Apps internally. Does much of the basic heavy lifting, then packages for easy consumption (perfect for the first group of people who would evaluate).

High points:

- Money saved / time saved tally

- Easy way to edit the underlying assumptions

- Auto-creation of a tailored slide deck, info poster and spreadsheet

Agreed

Except my 5 person company could save $46,000!!!! and regain 279 hours!

Numbers like this would make most managers BS detectors go off they're almost worse then no numbers at all.

That's why it so significant that you can easily change the underlying assumptions (which updates the $$/time calculations).

It was a good counter to the BS meter that initially went off in my head too.

yeah none of those levers really do much for me.

Yeah, my 1-person company could save $32,000 - how, they don't really say. That would be amazing, since my software licensing costs for the year are nil.

You have to click the 'assumptions' on the upper left. It seems that vast figure is generated by comparing to Microsoft Exchange, including sysadmin time.

http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/messaging_value....

Also, it appears that in various 'assumptions' on this site, it is ignoring the total number of people working for the company. When you edit assumptions in one part, it reads...

How many people work at <company>? 1 [...] Think of the last time you worked on a group project. How many people were on that team? 10 [...] What percentage of <company> employees use laptops? 60%

So, apparently 10 times as many people worked on the last project as were employed by the company in total, and .6 of one employee uses a laptop.

It would be better if the "assumptions" were clearly displayed. Until I found them (mostly due to a comment here) my bullshit meter was loudly buzzing. That aside, it's a little disingenuous that the page refuses to let me enter certain values for assumptions, or add capabilities we already have.

Google seem to believe, for example, they're the only company that offer offsite/PDA acecess, spam-free email, IM/chat for employees, collaborative document editng, and have non-disruptive downtime.

I think not my friends.

I agree. I laughed out loud when I got to "could avoid losing 108GB of data from lost or stolen laptops". If you're losing 108GB per year from lost or stolen laptops you need to strongly review your corporate policies.

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Here's a fun one:

http://www.gonegoogle.com/presentation/63a3f4b2b8a546a481447...

And another fun one:

http://www.gonegoogle.com/presentation/cf0b55c655124807a89b9...

I love that you can edit the assumptions. That would be an awesome feature in a pitch deck.

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