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Los Angeles OKs plan to use Google Web services

The Los Angeles City Council has tentatively approved a multimillion-dollar proposal to tap Google for government e-mail and other Internet services.The vote Tuesday shows progress in Google’s plan to wrest market share for office software from rival Microsoft.The council voted unanimously for the $7.2 million deal with contractor Computer Sciences to replace many city computer systems with Google Apps services. The contract’s implementation is contingent on Computer Science’s agreement to pay a penalty if a security breach occurs.The city’s police officers’ union and privacy advocates had raised security concerns over the plan because it places data online rather than on individual computers under a government agency’s direct control.

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Posted by Sana Iqbal on Nov 4th, 2009 and filed under Others Stuff, Technolgy. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response by filling following comment form or trackback to this entry from your site

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