Google Pushes Into Government Market


	Google Pushes Into Government Market

Andrew Gillies

9-29-2008 9:08 AM

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Andrew Gillies says:

We observed in April that Google was making its presence felt more aggressively in the U.S. federal technology market http://www.forbes.com/beltway/2008/04/02/amd-chipmaker-semiconductor-biz-wash-cz_atg_0403beltway.html. This Washington Post blog post goes into a bit of detail on one Google public sector customer: the District of Columbia. 38,000 District employees now use Gmail and other Google applications.

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