Boston Replacing Microsoft Exchange With Google Apps 251
netbuzz writes "The city of Boston, which employs 20,000 people, has become the latest large organization to switch from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps. The city estimates that the move will save it $280,000 a year. Microsoft's reaction? 'We believe the citizens of Boston deserve cloud productivity tools that protect their security and privacy. Google's investments in these areas are inadequate, and they lack the proper protections most organizations require.' More and more customers aren't buying that FUD."
Hopefully they'll be more satisfied than Los Angeles was (PDF).
What they should have said was (Score:2, Funny)
What they should have said was, "We believe the citizens of Boston deserve the productivity gains that come from the ability to wildcard search through emails."
Re:Yeah, they'll save their 280,000, and more (Score:5, Funny)
Are you saying Google Apps will bomb?
Too soon!
Re:Why is the FUD FUD? (Score:5, Funny)
When George W. Bush demanded all search engines hand over search data tied to IP addresses for all users, Google was the only search engine to refuse. Microsoft handed that data right over.
Of course, this was MSN search in those days, so there were only about 14 people's search records apart from a few million searches for "google toolbar"
Re:Good (Score:2, Funny)
And you seem to have a false dichotomy. As a /professional/ academic, I do use LaTeX.