Monday, May 13, 2013

Boston dumps Microsoft Exchange for Google Apps Network World

<p>Faced with the choice of saving serious money or buying a load of FUD, the City of Boston has become the latest enterprise customer to dump Microsoft Exchange in favor of Google Apps.</p><p>And the city's 20,000 employees won't be the last to make this move until Microsoft either closes the cost chasm or comes up with a scarier story.</p><p>From a report in this morning's Boston Globe:</p><p>It will cost Boston around $800,000 to move over to Gmail, Google Docs for word processing, and Google's cloud service for storing documents. But by dropping some Microsoft products, the city government will save at least $280,000 a year.</p><p><a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/83025">Keep reading...</a></p>

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