….only for corporate users.

Ya, the company have doubled the capacity of inbox, of the corporate users of the GMail. This corporate gmail account comes under the google GAPE package.

What’s GAPE?

GAPE stands for, Google Application Premier Edition, is service from google to power up clients organization with right service and right support. Generally people use, the standard version of Google (which is free) and provides 2GB(now around 3GB) space. Also there exists the education version (which is also free) and has almost same feature as the premier edition, to qualify for this service you must either be an accredited educational institution, or a non-profit organization with current 501(c)(3) status.

GAPE costs $50 per user per year, Google claims to have huge number of user registered for this edition, but hasn’t disclosed additional details. More features and comparison between this three services can be found here.

Is the cost increased?

Google have increased the space for the premier users, with no-additional cost. Google can do this because, it deliver email as web service, hence it can provide the storage at lower cost than traditional installations. This move came from the company as an effort to attract big business users to it’s Apps. services.

“This highlights the benefits of the software as a service model,” said Matthew Glotzbach, project manager for Google Enterprise, the business unit responsible for Google Apps. [via Reuters]

Also he (Matthew Glozbach) added that, this improvement in storage will provide virtually unlimited e-mails to business users.