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UC-Berkeley chooses Google Apps over the Microsoft alternative

article published on 25 December, 2011

The University of California-Berkeley has chosen Google Apps over Microsoft's Office 365 as their new cloud-based email and calender provider. After an "exhaustive" review process, the major university decided on the Google-based system: "While both products are feature rich and offer advantages over our current environment, the analysis concluded that the Google offering was the better ... [ read the full article ]

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Notcow
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_ 		25. December 2011 @ 21:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Good to hear! Hopefully this becomes a trend...until too many universities switch to Google and M$ sues them for innovating too quickly.
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Bryanaka
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_ 		25. December 2011 @ 23:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
When I saw this e-mail come in about 3 days ago, I was so glad.

UC Davis, San Diego, and Irvine I believe all use gmail as their email client. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory also uses gmail. It's about time UC Berkeley changed.

3 years ago we were stuck using that crappy outdated squirrel-mail app. Finally got round cube about a year and a half ago. But lets be honest, they couldn't compete with gmail's email ui.

Finally I'll be able to centralize everything on one email for convenience! Mail, calendar, Docs. :)
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