Brad Feld RSS Feed: Huge Google Gmail Enterprise Win

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I've been keeping my eyes out for one of these.  I hope my friends at Microsoft have been also.  Apparently the New South Wales Department of Education and Training (that would be Australia) just dumped Microsoft Outlook/Exchange in favor of Gmail.

Before you say "ho hum - it's only Australia" or "it's not enterprise - it's only academia", let's look at the numbers.

• 1.3m seats
• Previous cost to implement Outlook/Exchange: $33m over three years
• New cost to implement Gmail: $9m over three years
• Outlook/Exchange storage/mailbox: 35MB
• Gmail storage/mailbox: 6GM
• Weekly emails sent: over 300k

That's a non-trivial install.  (via TechCrunch)






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