I will admittedly eat a bit of crow on this one (considering I’m not too fond of Gmail) but in what has been the single largest deployment of Gmail ever, 1.5 million Australian students will now be using Gmail instead of Outlook w/Exchange.

This is what you call the ultimate in TCO. All students got bumped from 35MB to 1GB and the super-friendly nature of Gmail in a web browser makes this a very, very smart choice.

Things like this get attention because it proves without a shadow of a doubt that Gmail can work in large enterprise and save money at the same time.

Even though I’m not particular to Gmail personally, this is just plain cool. And to those that wanted yet another reason to stick it to Microsoft, there you go.

[Source: washingtonpost.com]