thing as _requiring_ a Gig for each client - companies like this thrive
under the fact that the huge amount of storage/bandwidth/capacity/whatever
they offer will be used in full by only the smallest fraction of users.
They could say 100 Meg, a Gig, 10 Gig, 100 Gig, whatever - it doesn't really
change the fact that the vast majority of users will use less than 10 meg
for all their email.
This is a great truth for marketing - as long as you've got the resources to
handle those few users that will use their full capacity (and Google
definitely does) they get a tremendously attractive marketing point for very
little cost.
I think the key for Google will be defining a workable orphan policy
(defining/deleting unused accounts and their content) and preventing the
build-up of spam. If they can handle that they can really offer whatever
space the marketing department wants.
Jim Davis
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From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 7:05 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: googling email
That doesn't say it's an April fools joke. From what others are talking
about,
the chances are high that this is real. If so (and Google has the cash and
tech
to do it) then it'll be massive. Yes, a Gig seems like a lot when your
dealing
with a million subscribers or more, but that's only a few thousand servers
set
up as 'drive only' machines. With some of the hard core storage options
coming
out of IBM, this number gets knocked down a lot.
I think it's for real and if not, then it should be.
>
> It was an April Fools
> http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/gmail.html
>
>
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