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Utilities — available storage space

Google Accounts — Manage Sto­rage. Uni­fied page for all of your sto­rage (at least Gmail and Picasa—I don’t see Google Docs, why so?)

Advantages of Google Apps Premier/for Business

Main page for differences

  • More than 50 users (more than 3000 for U.S. non-profit other than schools). Star­ting from May 10th 2011, the upper limit for the free edi­tion will move from 50 to a meagre 10!
  • Mail advan­tages
    • Triple the amount of mail sto­rage (one can still buy more, but it will be on an indi­vi­dual basis and will be sha­red with all ser­vices ins­tead of being limi­ted to the mail)
    • Mail redi­rec­tion handling
    • Mail sup­port (even phone sup­port for ser­vice una­vai­lable emergencies)
    • Extra mail control (Post­inimail quotamail bla­ck­list (inbound only))
    • Much easier migra­tion (from Out­look or Lotus, for instance)
    • Sha­red address­book (in prac­tive, works very badly without a third-party addition)
    • Some advan­ced mobile device management
    • Read receipts
  • Trans­fer owner­ship for non Google Docs documents
  • Login advan­tages
  • No ads
  • User-managed forums and mailing-lists
  • Access to Google API

How much does Google Apps cost?

As usual with Google poor docu­men­ta­tion, it is not easy to have defi­ni­tive ans­wers.
Pri­cing for Google Apps
Edi­tion Pri­cing Eli­gi­bi­lity Notes
Stan­dard Free Eve­ryone Com­pa­red to per­so­nal account, add­ded value is mini­mal or even nega­tive
Non-profit Free U.S., up to 3000 users, com­ply with some part of the U.S. law. Beyond 3000 users, Pre­mier with a 40% dis­count (40 $/year/user; there is no price in euros or pounds since Non-profit is only for the U.S.). Hope­fully a com­plete fea­ture set (contrary to Edu­ca­tion), wha­te­ver the amount of users, but no evi­dence so far.
Not to be mis­ta­ken with Google for non-profits
Edu­ca­tion Free U.S. school
Busi­ness/Premier 50$/user/year (40€ or 35£; doesn’t change with exchange rate). Eve­ryone This starts from user #1, not user #51 (I have to check this, though). So, if you are 50 users using Google Apps Stan­dard, think twice before upgrading!