Re:You get what you pay for! (Score 1)

$50/yr for each user is not "free". Nor is it in the domain of "you get what you pay for". $50 per user is actually a rather significant sum when we're talking about 100+ user companies.

Is it? Is it *really*? What decent office software can your corporate (read, Windows) users buy for $50 a year? Compared with a world-class mail, calendar and collaboration suite?

Surely, $50 a head to save your IT department from having to provide:
  * Mail servers (training, architecture, backing store, backups)
  * Calendar server (as above)
  * Shared document access
is cost-effective.

As an example, I worked out how much it cost my university of 20,000 users to migrate to and use MS Exchange over five years. I might add, the worst of it was that they went for Exchange and now students are mandated to use Outlook Web Access for their email. It came to about $2M in staff costs alone. Factor in hardware costs (they were talking 25 high-end servers and a pair of beefy NetApps storage devices), power, space and aircon -- suddenly $50 p.a. starts to look really well worth it.