Salesforce is stingy with the storage

Do you remember back when 1gb of online storage was pretty awesome? Me too. I think it was about 3 or 4 years ago. I know that Gmail offered that much when it went live on April 1st, 2004 and it seemed like a lot at the time.

Today, Gmail offers 6.5gb of storage. This is for a free service.

Salesforce.com is not a free service. In fact it's a very expensive service. Pricing for Salesforce starts at $65/user/month for Professional Edition and $125/user/month for the Enterprise Edition. Both packages include 1GB of free storage. Beyond that, storage is $300 per year for each additional 50MB!

That is a truly staggering fee in the context of online storage. It's got to be a huge profit center for Salesforce, and I find it ridiculous. So do a lot of other people.