Google beat Microsoft and other suitors for the right to replace Novell’s GroupWise platform in Los Angeles for 34,000 employees. L.A.’s municipal workers will use Gmail, Google Docs and other Google Apps for their messaging and collaboration needs. CSCI is supporting the three-year cloud computing contract, valued at $7.25 million. While more than 2 million businesses are using Google Apps, the company can’t get too comfortable. Microsoft, Cisco, Zoho and a legion of others are offering comparable cloud-based collaboration services.
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Los Angeles officially went Google, six weeks after Google beat Microsoft and other suitors for the right to replace Novell’s GroupWise
platform with Google Apps in a contract valued at $7.25 million.
Google officials trumpeted the news in two blog posts
Dec. 14, noting that L.A….