Google Sues U.S by e-mail Contract

Google Inc., insist their work e-mail and expand cloud computing, took government to court in a process of tender for the battery cover for Microsoft rival Google Inc., which had been told to modify working with Microsoft in the country to to make a dent in the desktop software market of $ 20 billion, sued the U.S. Department of the Interior of the alleged exclusion of the offer from Google, its mail system for 88,000 employees of the agency tender. According to the complaint, the department said it would only systems that use Microsoft software, called for the management of e-mail a Google limit considered "unduly restrictive of competition." "On the basis of risk assessments and studies the market," wrote the specifications within the Microsoft software is "the only commercial product that all conditions are met by the department."

The complaint, filed Friday in the Court of Federal Claims United States, interior minister said injured a federal law that mandates to use the competition authorities and in open contracts. Google tries to stop the process before the department is satisfied with this law. "Google is an advocate of competition in the Internet and technology in general," said spokesman Andrew Kovacs Google. "Here, a fair and open process could save taxpayers tens of millions of U.S. dollars and better service." Barkoff, a spokesman for the Federal Agency Kendra said the department could not comment on pending litigation. For several years, Google is fighting to win in the global market for office software and e-mail, a sector dominated by Microsoft for some time with your Outlook and Office. The division that sells Microsoft Office software, the main unit is received on 19000000000 $ turnover this year. To differentiate its offering, Google has always promoted its Internet cloud, an approach that customers run the business e-mail and documents in remote data centers, not a Google server by the companies themselves.

The approach allows customers to save big clouds to make money by outsourcing your own internal e-mail systems. Difficulties, but Google has in their attempt to loosen the noose tight face Redmond, Washington software giant Microsoft in the market for e-mail that includes decades of relationships with some of the biggest companies and international organizations in government. In October 2009, Google surpassed Microsoft to a profile of 7.2 million U.S. dollars contract for High-mail address of the employee of the City of Los Angeles to receive 30 000 supply. But today almost half of the plan is still bogged down in the bureaucratic swamp, while Google is working on safety barriers in the Los Angeles Police Department, which has 13,000 employees removed.

Last summer, Google has in its efforts to its Google Apps for e-mail product to California, which Microsoft ultimately decided for the 200,000 state employees have been thwarted. Google, who were involved in lengthy discussions with the government on contracts for security and ease of use, ultimately decided not to make an offer and complained about what he saw as biased in favor of Microsoft in the tender. The State complains that Google does not place a bid. The Interior Ministry also objected to the safety of Google, according to the complaint. The Ministry requires that any new system cloud their messages on a server that only e-mails from other agencies included.