> Google Apps users will also be getting shared storage, so visit the enterprise blog to learn more.
This is a big deal. Previously, even though you could upgrade the regular version of Gmail, you couldn't upgrade your Google Apps Gmail storage for any price, even if you were a paying customer. A few of our accounts are getting pretty close to the 25 GB limit for Google Apps Pro customers.
Yeah this is double-edged news for Pro customers. On one hand you can give people lots of storage. On the other hand they'll use it and it'll then be that much harder to ever move off big G.
While it does give an incentive to stay, I'm not sure it makes it harder to leave. For Gmail and Docs at least, the export format (mbox through IMAP and Office docs, respectively) are the standard for anywhere you might want to go or anything you might want to roll on your own.
It's definitely doable either way but having a fixed maximum mailbox size makes a lot of things a lot easier. Individual users get moved in smaller and bounded chunks, you can spec storage utilization as a simple function of number of users and not worry about shuffling people around as mailboxes grow, things like that.
This is a big deal. Previously, even though you could upgrade the regular version of Gmail, you couldn't upgrade your Google Apps Gmail storage for any price, even if you were a paying customer. A few of our accounts are getting pretty close to the 25 GB limit for Google Apps Pro customers.