Theodp writes "Google touts its organization with the locality of america government, presenting it as quite the Google Apps success story. So as part of his indemnity of last week's Gmail outage, nextgov's Gautham Nagesh called the DC government, but was told they hadn't heard of any reports of outages among city employees. Nagesh wrote this off to safeguards put in place for the direction by Google, but readers tipped him off to another explanation: 'Despite all the press releases trumpeting Google in DC,' an nameless commenter wrote, 'Exchange is still the city's primary email system.' Nagesh followed up, and was surprised to learn that there is indeed no Gmail in DC government. This all seemed rather strange to Nagesh, forasmuch as how much heedfulness former DC CTO and current Federal CIO Vivek Kundra has recognized for implementing Google Apps for parcel employees. Reporting separately, CNET's Elinor Mills was told by a DC 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company. published by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company. all rights reserved.view results from: dictionary | thesaurus | encyclopedia | all reference | the web
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