Los Angeles Goes Google Apps With Microsoft Cash

Dan Jones writes "The Los Angeles City Council has approved a US$7.25 million, five-year deal with Google in which the city will adopt Gmail and other Google Apps. Interestingly, just over $1.5 million for the project will come from the payout of a 2006 class action lawsuit between the City and Microsoft (Microsoft paid $70 million three years ago to settle the suit by six California counties and cities who alleged that Microsoft used its monopoly position to overcharge for software). The city will migrate from Novell GroupWise e-mail servers. For security, Google will provide a new separate data environment called 'GovCloud' to store both applications and data in a completely segregated environment that will only be used by public agencies. This GovCloud would be encrypted and 'physically and logically segregated' from Google's standard applications. Has cloud computing stepped up to prime time?"

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[Jack Malmostoso]

I thought "Microsoft Cash" was a new marvellous Redmond product I hadn't heard of.

Re:Cloud?

[CensorshipDonkey]

Ha! Maybe you haven't seen the meme "You must be new here."

Re:Gmail is not ready.

[Anonymous Coward]

Blasphemy! Obviously he's better than Google, and handles millions of users from his mom's basement using a server running on a classic Gameboy!

Finally open goverment

[fermion]

I love it, we finally will have open government. Just Google your local representatives name, and all the related email, documents, and maybe even web searches, will be there for users to browse. Transparency, accountability, and honesty. No more browsing on craigslist on taxpayers time. No more hiding behind the law.

Re:Cannot parse title

[dangitman]

... marvellous Redmond product...

When has that ever happened?

Re:Wha?

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

Ouch. I think that I didn't get my chronology quite right. I should have gone 1. Coffee 2. Slashdot rather than the other way around...

Re:Cannot parse title

[HangingChad]

When has that ever happened?

Windows 95.

Re:Gmail is not ready.

[digitalPhant0m]

If I ran a business and my email was completely down to this extent I would fire my Exchange team.

I'd fire you for choosing Exchange.

Re:Cloud?

[OakDragon]

Not to mention using advanced needs-based methodology to monetize the synergy created by reactive transitional functionalities, thus enabling a future-proofed maximized pricing structure!

Re:Why segregate?

[stocke2]

if you can't communicate with your co-workers inside your office in any other way than email you have a bigger problem.

Re:The times are changing

[webheaded]

Is it just me or have other people been noticing posts inappropriately modded as funny? I don't really see why anyone would mod this post funny...he isn't really trying to be funny and he isn't ironically funny either.

California's letter to Microsoft

[bill_kress]

Dear Microsoft:

Forget the fact that you overcharge
us, we can overlook that. You were
counting on your monopoly to
keep us as customers and that's not right.

Your products, however, are shoddy and
outside the realm of
usability. We will switch to Google.

Love,
    California

Microsoft bashing and google ass kissing

[afortaleza]

is the favourite sport of many /.ers !

And in related news

[twoears]

Microsoft's executive offices just placed an order for replacement office furniture.