The City of LA's story

[SagaciousSilence]

I'm a life-long Californian and have lived in the LA and Orange counties. To know LA, ask a native. LA is a disaster. The LA county is filled with poverty and crime. It has the worse effects of ethnic diversity, with whites forming enclaves in the few nicest parts (Brentwood, Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades, Malibu, Calabasas, and Westlake all have a white pop. of >85% with at most 5% black & hispanic) while all other cities being crime/gang infested (with hispanic pop. of >85%). LA is rotten.

[Stevenx01]

Gale Beggy became the CTO of Los Angeles!

[shahinkohan]

"CSC and Google's behavior goes beyond a mere failure to communicate in a timely manner and instead, on several occasions, has risen to the level of misrepresentation," the memo from city technology chief Randi Levin said. "These failures are wholly unacceptable to the city of Los Angeles."

[shahinkohan]

This is a disaster. They have failed and city has lost millions of $ ... this was a mistake they should have got a different system.

[bagoona]

Can it detect welfare fraud?

[rehndawg]

They did it because of the price so don't get your hopes up. Not too long ago a client of mine dumped google apps before it went fullblown. Why did they do it...because almost all of googles interfaces are ugly...sorry google but its true...yes it can be customized but usually the young adults do that not baby boomers or people in their 30s or 40s...dont expect us to make it look good...microsoft's online services are sleek...thats all google lacks a better first impression then thell flourish

[ak99372]

"The data will never change the ownership it will be always owned by city of LA" ... try to explain that to someone who steals the confidential information. How can city trust Google with their data? Any pissed Google employee will know the back end door to the system... next thing you know we will be "googling" LA confidential online.

[8035155]

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[chrismonte2006]

Thank you for taking the step and leading!! It has to be L.A. and the rest will take suit.

[hd883low17]

Welcome to L.A....where our Mayor is a corrupt gangbanger and the state's governor is a Nazi...

A city of Fines and corruption...smog, dirty cops and dirtier politicians...

the capital of the porn industry and the city wiht the most gangbangers and drug dealers...

[Welocy]

And now Microsoft is trying to catch up :P

[InsideLosAngeles]

Microsoft loses. HAHA

[mediaclips]

@InsideLosAngeles Funny that you think MS lost when the City is moving from Novell GroupWise NOT Microsoft Exchange.

[ReduceYourAccentLA]

Nice Video to watch..Thanks.

Happy New Year 2010

From

Los Angeles Accent Reduction Specialist

Southern California USA

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010

[noitro]

Google is the best ever!

[adavidruiznayarit200]

hello, look this video XD: watch?v=Pw29sVGRgOA

[ra4king]

omg i am addicted to google

I LOVE YOU GOOGLE!

[krabadie]

I wonder if this is saving money by cutting IT jobs/hours?

[ra4king]

@krabadie

it does :D

[krabadie]

Heh I figured that. Im torn because I hate Micro$oft with a passion, but I feel that Google will put alot of people out of work

[ra4king]

why will google do that? IT people, like me, will still work to keep the system working and healthy. All of this isn't on Google's Servers, the company itself will have its own servers but use Google's infrastructure.

[daftrok]

@krabadie How will this put people out of work? You could just work as IT support for companies that provide cloud computing. It's like the automatic check outs in grocery stores; instead of being constantly understaffed like what most stores do on purpose, you now get breathing room.

[dexter112358]

Great job, Google. Your email keeps getting better.

[mtgentry]

A wise decision by the city of L.A. It's about time.

[madjunir]

very nice

[Rocky1138]

This is a huge win for Google and with tough economic times more large cities will likely follow suit in the cost savings involved with Google Apps.

[igorevich23]

Great PR-decision for Google

[westmeat]

manhood101 dot c o m support google technology because men make the world go round

[chr1shunter]

This is great! I hope they are successful enough in L.A. to persuade more organizations to use Google's services.

[john123wayne]

heaven forbid they stop giving los angeles politicians their own personal cars to use to drive to and from work, pay their gasoline (personal and professional driving), pay their insurance, pay them a stipend to drive the car....etc....