Plans to migrate LAPD to Google's cloud apps dropped

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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222932/Plans_to_migrate_LAPD_to_Google_s_cloud_apps_dropped

By Jaikumar Vijayan
Computerworld
December 22, 2011

After more than two years of trying, the City of Los Angeles has abandoned 
plans to migrate its police department to Google's hosted email and office 
application platform saying the service cannot meet certain FBI security 
requirements.

As a result, close to 13,000 law-enforcement employees will remain indefinitely 
on the LAPD's existing Novell GroupWise applications, while other city 
departments will use the Google Apps for Government cloud platform.

Council members last week amended a November 2009 contract the city has with 
systems integrator Computer Science Corp. (CSC) under which CSC was supposed to 
have replaced LA's GroupWise e-mail system with Google's email and 
collaboration system. Under the amended contract, the LAPD will no longer move 
its email applications to Google.

Instead, Google will pay up to $350,000 per year for the LAPD to maintain its 
GroupWise licenses for the entire term of the CSC contract and any extensions 
beyond that. Google will also substantially reduce the amount it charges for 
the rest of the city's use of Google Apps. Under the amendment, CSC too will 
reduce its initial integration fee for the project by $250,000.

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