I believe that Cornell's Webmail offered something like 300 MB.About 14,000 Cornell students are being served by the Google account that was put into place in April of last year, [CIT Director Rick] MacDonald said. So far, feedback from students has been positive.
MacDonald said Cornell does not pay Google anything to use Gmail, but it does still cost money in manpower to offer the service. MacDonald said in the long run, however, outsourcing did save money.
Ithaca college offers students 75 megabites of storage, whereas Google has 7 gigabites. This means Gmail has 7,000 megabites to the college’s 75 megabites of data space.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
IC Considers Switching to Google Mail
As with Cornell, a key issue seems to be storage space. IC only offers students a fraction of the email storage space which Cornell offered before switching to Google Mail.
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Megabites? Seriously? *sigh*
ReplyDeleteYes, the Postoffice accounts offered 300MB limits, whether you accessed the mailboxes with webmail or a desktop client. The transition to Cmail is taking a fair amount of staff time, and we haven't been able to turn off the postoffices yet, but even though "free" isn't free, we should save a fair amount of money in the long run.
Look for some more news about what's going on with student e-mail soon. :-)