Yahoo Fortifies Free E-Mail to Counter Google
Associated Press 
 
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Not even 90%!

The idea with GMail though is to archive old emails to enable users to search easily for them. 

You're not going to use 1gig instantly obviously, but over a period of a few years an average email user will dent the 1 gig limit.

Whats a gig of storage worth? Probably 10 cents to google considering they'd be buying TB's at a time, which is probably what they make of a couple of clicks from the ads within google,

Good money maker if you ask me.

You're missing the point about Google.

Google doesn't use BSD or NT or OSX or anything like that. They are all far too primative for what Google needs.

Google doesn't use primative RDBMS systems like Oracle or MS SQL Server... Larry Elison and Bill Gate should be worried... VERY worried...

These guys are doing something WAY different...

Google's architechture is based on a more common sense approach where SERVERS FAIL. And they don't care.

They use multiple servers to replicate data across all of them and when 1 fails - they trash it. No mess... no fuss... Junk the crap. They can do this because their data is replicated across multiple servers and the just stick in a new box with their own OS and their own software, replicate the data again to the new box and TADA~! Everything is done.

It's got nothing to do with the storage capacity. Storage is expensive  no matter what you do. BUT... They have a better data storage strategy than MS or IBM or Oracle. This lets them use storage RELIABLY which is the biggest problem. 

The cost will be offset by ads and things. EVERYONE advertises on Google. 

Those guys have some slick stuff happening.

The next version of NT will address this issue in the new NT file system.

I haven't heard about anything like it coming from the *NIX community... Seems like they are stuck in their own little user-unfriendly world.

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Also google will limit the size of individual emails (not sure what to but lets say 10MB). And lets face it, who is going to store 100 10MB emails in their inbox,

The most ive succesfully sent was about 7.4MB, wont let me send larger.

But for those who havent got an account yet i must say it's awesome, The main thing i love is the Speed of there web mail client, absolutly unbeatable,

When IBM used to install a new mainframe computer, they would throttle it to keep the speed down.

With only few users migrated to it, it would be amazingly faster than the previous computer, but as more users were migrated, it would only become much faster. The early migrators would start complaining about how slow the new computer had gotten rather than remembering that what they had now was still much faster.

They figured out that by throttling it for light loads, and opening it up when more users were added, everyone felt the new computer was faster and stayed happy.