If Microsoft needed any more reasons to figure out a way to make Office available inexpensively via the Web, it just got a big one: Washington D.C. has chosen Google Apps instead of Microsoft Office for a big new intranet for city employees. And where Washington goes, enterprises may well follow.
By choosing Google Apps as the basis for its intranet, instead of Microsoft Office and other Microsoft software, Washington D.C. has saved some serious money. Instead of spending $4 million, the city will spend $475,000 a year in licensing fees, says the IDG News Service.
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