[jemka]

>What is wrong with Google Apps? $50 per user per year with SLA

The article isn't a plea to pay for gmail, which you probably inferred from reading the title or first paragraph.

[mhiceoin]

No, I certainly read the whole thing. With Google Apps you get all the support (SLA, uptime, phone contact) along with data ownership (by using an offline mail client for example).

[scott_s]

Data ownership was only one point. Address ownership was the other.

[blasdel]

…which you also get with Google Apps.

There's no way to set it up without owning a domain!

[cwp]

Which you can also have with Google Apps.