They didn’t move the cap down, they just killed the Standard product entirely. When the service first launched in August 2006 it was free and described as “a service available at no cost to organizations of all shapes and sizes.” A paid version first appeared in 2007.ĭave Girouard, Google’s President of Enterprise, commented on our post that talked about the decreasing number of users allowed for the free version, saying that the cap reductions were needed to keep resellers happy, adding “There’s no reason to believe that the cap will continue to “move down” – we have no plans whatsoever to do that.”
that are packaged and tailored for business use.Įarlier this year we reported that the usage caps were being squeezed by Google over time for Google Apps, from 200 users down to just 50. Google Apps is a suite of online applications like gmail, Google calendar, Google Docs, etc.
Instead, new users get a 14 day free trial, and then must pay $50 per user per year after that trial. The current sign up page makes no mention of the previously free Standard edition. The free version of Google Apps is history.
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