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Thursday, August 14, 2008
Google, Microsoft vie for Universities - John Cox, Network World
You can think of it as "Schoogle." That would be Google's laid-back but unflinchingly ambitious plan to woo college and university IT departments into outsourcing not just student e-mail but Web-based productivity applications and calendaring to the search giant. And a growing number of schools are doing just that. Last week, Google announced 13 new U.S. institutions had signed up for the free, and ad-free, cloud-based services, ranging from the Collin County Community College District, in Plano, Texas, to giants such as Kent State and Indiana University.
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