Are Google Apps for Education really free?

According to the IT Director at my school





"It has more to do with interfacing with administrative applications.


to do so is not free."





What are these administrative applications and how much are they?|||Yes, it really is free. Google provides many services that are otherwise costly to educators free of charge. Everything there is free, and there is no charge for using administrative applications. Go to www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu to learn more.


You can, however purchase additional applications not required from the Google Apps Marketplace. Even so, all the necessary applications, and some more, are provided free of charge. The "paid apps" are basically to expand the Applications further into the classroom, and really aren't needed at all.