Greg, This is truly heartbreaking. A couple years ago I was about to sign up for the free 50 user account to build a social enterprise I had been planning for years, when my daughter was abducted. I had to drop everything and didn’t sign up, but I certainly would have if I’d known if was going away because it was critical to the plan.
It took 2 years and going into huge debt to recover her. Now, I was just about to sign up for the free 10 user account to build a much scaled down version of the plan, and discover I have just missed it once again. Now I must abandon the plan completely because the entire viability was based around zero start up costs, since for the first few years of community work, it will have no income or contributions. Plus I am familiar with Google’s tools and don’t have the time to learn another platform. This is very sad. I put so much care and time into building this plan. Now a lot of good that would have been done will not happen. I was so exited about the free Google Apps offering, it revolutionized the ability for certain kinds of social enterprises to get started immediately without funding and start doing good in their communities. For some team efforts, a simple integrated infrastructure is everything and all you need to get started. I just wish I had had the foresight and street savvy to guess that it wouldn’t last and put in the 10 minutes it would have take to sign up back when it was 50 users, or at least yesterday when it was 10. Now I can’t do it at all. Regards, River On Thursday, December 6, 2012 8:41:34 PM UTC-7, Greg D'Alesandre wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > The Apps Standard account you have today will continue to work for free. > If you create a new Apps account going through the App Engine Admin > Console you'll still be able to create a Standard Apps account for free but > you'll only be able to get 1 user per account rather than the 10 you get > today. > > Let me know if you have additional questions, > > Greg D'Alesandre > Senior Product Manager, Google App Engine > > On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Nickolas Daskalou > <ni...@daskalou.com<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> -1 Google. >> >> Nick >> >> >> >> On 7 December 2012 13:53, Strom <xxs...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: >> >>> This seems like another nice price increase for GAE. >>> >>> >>> On Friday, December 7, 2012 4:42:42 AM UTC+2, Greg wrote: >>>> >>>> Just saw that Google Apps is no longer free for >>>> businesses<http://googleenterprise.blogspot.co.nz/2012/12/changes-to-google-apps-for-businesses.html> >>>> . >>>> >>>> I have no problem paying for a Google Apps account where I actually use >>>> Google apps, but at the moment you have to have a Google Apps account to >>>> link a domain to an Appengine app. Some of our apps have two or three >>>> domains showing the same app, and because you need to have an account for >>>> each email address that Appengine sends email from, we have three or four >>>> accounts per domain. So this is potentially going to add $600 per year to >>>> our costs - all for virtual accounts that don't actually use Google Apps >>>> at >>>> all. >>>> >>>> Can someone from Google comment please? Either Google Apps accounts >>>> need to remain free if they are associated with Appengine apps, or there >>>> needs to be another way to link domains (and authorise email addresses) >>>> for >>>> Appengine. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Google App Engine" group. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/7K0WvlZvU0oJ. >>> >>> To post to this group, send email to >>> google-a...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >>> . >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> google-appengi...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google App Engine" group. >> To post to this group, send email to >> google-a...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> google-appengi...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/MHxDcv1UnmgJ. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
