The City of LA's story

The City of Los Angeles -- in a decision unanimously approved by the Los Angeles City Council -- recently selected Google Apps to replace its current email system for all 34,000 city employees. Los Angeles Chief Technology Officer Randi Levin and Kevin Crawford, Assistant General Manager of LA's Information Technology Agency, discuss the reasons behind the city's decision.

[@chrismonte2006]

Thank you for taking the step and leading!! It has to be L.A. and the rest will take suit.

[@daftrok]

@krabadie How will this put people out of work? You could just work as IT support for companies that provide cloud computing. It's like the automatic check outs in grocery stores; instead of being constantly understaffed like what most stores do on purpose, you now get breathing room.

[@RoiAtalla]

why will google do that? IT people, like me, will still work to keep the system working and healthy. All of this isn't on Google's Servers, the company itself will have its own servers but use Google's infrastructure.

[@igorevich23]

Great PR-decision for Google

[@Stevenx01]

Gale Beggy became the CTO of Los Angeles!

[@mtgentry]

A wise decision by the city of L.A. It's about time.

[@john123wayne]

heaven forbid they stop giving los angeles politicians their own personal cars to use to drive to and from work, pay their gasoline (personal and professional driving), pay their insurance, pay them a stipend to drive the car....etc....

[@RoiAtalla]

@krabadie it does :D

[@moomema16]

I going to live to la

[@madjunir]

very nice

[@bagoona]

Can it detect welfare fraud?

[@tylorj001]

Sagioussilence if you cant handle la move

[@RoiAtalla]

omg i am addicted to google I LOVE YOU GOOGLE!