This thread keeps getting more and more surreal. Google App Engine != Google Apps. They aren't run by the same people. I realize there probably isn't a mailing list where you can vent at the Google Apps team, but it's pointless to do it here.
Jeff On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 3:27 AM, River <riverg...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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>wrote: >> >>> -1 Google. >>> >>> Nick >>> >>> >>> >>> On 7 December 2012 13:53, Strom <xxs...@gmail.com> 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? 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