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Google Apps Not the DC Success Many Believe?
theodp writes "Google touts its partnership with the District of Columbia government, presenting it as quite the Google Apps success story. So as part of his coverage 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 government by Google, but readers tipped him off to another explanation: 'Despite all the press releases trumpeting Google in DC,' an anonymous 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, considering how much attention former DC CTO and current Federal CIO Vivek Kundra has received for implementing Google Apps for District employees. Reporting separately, CNET's Elinor Mills was told by a DC spokeswoman that while Google Apps is available to 38,000 DC city employees, only 4,000 are actively using it. The spokeswoman added that Gmail could potentially replace Microsoft Exchange, 'but this decision has not been made yet.'"
Today, I had a post containing the word "nigger" get moderated to +5. My life is now complete.
maybe, just maybe, DC civil servants have a good reason for not using Google aps.
Yeah but using a Microsoft solution like Exchange is comparable to beating your own nutsac with a tack hammer. Clearly they need a third option!
Say it ain't so!
And when we do find substance, it's either spouting off about "only white kids shoot up schools" or signing 9/11 Truther petitions. Can anyone imagine the coverage a Bush appointee would have gotten had he said "Only black kids do drugs"? But an Obama appointee who did both those things had to resign because nut-job Glenn Beck dug them up. WTF?!?! Glenn Beck?!?! Doing a better job than the NY Times and Washington Post? Utter whack-job Glenn Beck forces Obama to toss Van Jones under the bus?!?!
What kind of loons is Obama hiring if Glenn Beck pretty much all by himself can get one of them canned? Think about that - Glenn Beck can force Obama to fire advisors. Utter right-wing nut job Glenn Beck.
And now we find that Vivek Kundra - he of the entirely corrupt office (but HE'STHAT and I've got a bridge to sell you!) going to dump tax cheat Charlie Rangel as head of the Ways and Means Committee - the very committee in charge of things like, say, taxation?
M$ people have a lot of never to complain, considering how difficult it is to "upgrade" any of their junk. Vista Failure springs to mind, but so do the number of companies still using IE 6, ancient versions of Outlook and Office. Given the slow speed of transition to any new M$ program, we can and should conclude that they are all failures before we judge Google Docs and Gmail a failure because one highly political institution has not made the transition overnight.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
How the fuck would you know?