• Los Angeles Times, Wednesday, October 28, 2009 3:26 PM

The city of Los Angeles just voted to outsource its email system to Google, making it the largest city in the nation to make the move, and handing the search giant a major victory in its quest to become a software provider to the world's cities and businesses. The $7.25-million contract will move all 30,000 city employees to Google's so-called "cloud" over the coming year.

Because LA will be among the earliest adopters of the Google system, city council members expressed concern that they might be signing on before Google's cloud system was fully proven. The contract was approved pending an amendment that would require Google to compensate the city in the event that the its system was breached and city data exposed or stolen. Expect another chapter to this story.

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