Google and Its Cloudware Win Largest Federal Site Yet

GSA expects the deal, plucked out from under Microsoft, to cut its costs in half over the next five years

Google has won the General Services Administration (GSA) over to Gmail and Google Apps for Government.

The GSA, which is sorta like the federal government's quartermaster corps, said it's the first federal agency to move e-mail to a cloud-based system agency-wide.

It expects the deal, plucked out from under Microsoft, to cut its costs in half over the next five years and save it $15 million.

It will bring Google another 15,000 seats.

The agency said the widgetry better suits its mobile work force and is "in step with the administration's ‘cloud first' strategy."

The order is worth $6.7 million to Unisys which partnered with Google, Tempus Nova and Acumen Solutions. Unisys will provide the services and implement Google's software. It will tear out IBM's Lotus Notes and Domino software.

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