Appstate is "going Google":
We’re moving to Google Apps for Education! Our email and calendar collaboration tools are currently split across a number of disparate systems: student email is on Google Apps for Education, faculty and staff use our local Sun ONE system, and several different calendaring systems are used on campus. The migration of faculty and staff email and calendars to Google Apps for Education will move us to a single communications and calendaring platform. This single platform will create efficiencies and simplify collaboration to help support teaching and research, as well as expediting some administrative tasks, like meeting scheduling. (No more Doodle polls!) Plus, Google Apps, including unlimited email and file storage, is free.
"Free" as in no fixed cost? no marginal cost? How does Google monetize this? And I'll admit that I don't see what the cost might be relative to other "free lunches." But what do we do when Google shuts something down that we have come to rely on (e.g., Google Reader)?
