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Article: United States : Los Angeles City Council Approves Google E-Mail Plan.
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- October 29, 2009
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Byline: Mamta03
The Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved Tuesday, Oct. 27, a plan to move the city's employees to Google's Gmail and productivity tools, a decision that could signal momentum for other government agencies that are considering adoption of cloud computing for enterprisewide IT services.
L.A. is thoughtl to be the first public-sector enterprise to choose Google's e-mail service Gmail, which is accessed from a Web browser and is hosted by the company's massive network of offsite servers. L.A. will replace its existing e-mail system, Novell GroupWise, which it has used for the past seven years. The five-year contract with Google will ...