Any cheaper than $50 per user per year and you're in the free range. Just to keep this in perspective, $50 a year is a pretty good value when you think about what you're getting in Google Apps.
Right. They definitely have saved a lot of money and increased productivity. No doubt about that. But users quickly forget about all of that when they're dead in the water. Even if there are workarounds available like getting to the document directly via a link, you KNOW some users aren't that savvy (unfortunately, but we've all dealt with them).
Right, I understand that. But when you have thousands of docs, most of which you haven't shared (works in progress), no one is going to have the link readily available. So it's essentially a complete outage from the average users standpoint.
Don't get me wrong, huge fan of Google Apps. Just becomes a big issue for clients when they can't access their data, even if it's just minutes -- as you well know.
Update: The problem with Google Docs List should be resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued support.
Update from Google: We're aware of a problem with Google Docs List affecting a majority of users. The affected users are unable to access Google Docs List, but we've provided a workaround below. We will provide an update by August 26, 2011 3:14:00 PM UTC-4 detailing when we expect to resolve the problem. Please note that this resolution time is an estimate and may change.
Affected users will see a 404 when accessing the Google Docs home page. You can access individual documents by clicking on the link in the original sharing email, or if you have saved the URL for that document.
I'm looking for actual time spent. We'd all have pretty high numbers if we counted our "connected" hours. I'm usually connected in some way until I go to sleep, but actual time spent on social is probably about 1 hour/day for me.