It's actually far from a loss. My best friend leads their enterprise sales dept for google for domains.
At (I think) 50.00 a user, per year, and you take a deal like the last I just heard of... 500,000 seats, they make good money and already have all the infrastructure in place. It's IMAP, so you own your domain and data and are free to move your data, mirror it etc, at any time. It's not for everyone, but for the fortune 5000 group, it saves them millions a year in hardware, bandwidth, IT staff etc. Microsoft fears this greatly, so there is some inherent merit on that alone. It's certainly a large profit center, just judging from how my friend is living :) Not that i would ever want to be in sales. -- Scott (Sent from a mobile device) On Jan 11, 2010, at 2:23 PM, Jeroen van Aart <[email protected]> wrote: > I can imagine google stopping this whole enterprise email solution > in a > few years (or downscaling it), since it could easily be a loss making > business throughout its existence. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
