As has been widely noted, Google’s popular Gmail service suffered a multi-day outage. Google says that they were rolling out a software storage update on February 27, 2011 and ran into a bug that wiped out the e-mail of 0.02% of their customers. Fortunately, the data was backed up on tape (yes, that’s right, The [...]
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Google Wins Injunction Against DOI Microsoft Deployment
Two months ago, Google filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Interior Department after the department picked Microsoft for a new e-mail system. Now, a federal judge in DC has issued a preliminary injunction in that case preventing the selection of the Microsoft system and ordering Interior to investigate and correct deficiencies in the bidding process. [...]
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Googles Whines About Being Left Out of USDA Cloud Procurement
This week, Microsoft says it signed a deal with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to provide online email, web conferencing, document collaboration, and instant messaging to the 120,000 USDA employees. The deal, worth $27 million over three years, is part of a GSA Schedule contract with Dell (which bid the Microsoft Online Services solution in [...]
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Dept. of Interior Asks for Microsoft Cloud, Gets Lawsuit from Google Cloud
Google and Onix Network Corporation (of Ohio) have sued Uncle Sam, specifically the U.S. Department of the Interior, complaining of the department’s limited source RFQ that demands the Microsoft cloud for messaging and collaboration services. The request for quote (RFQ No. 503786) specifies the Microsoft Business Productivity Suite – Federal (called BPOS-Federal, because you know [...]
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