The Battle for the Government

Capitol Hill in cloud with Google and Microsoft logos

Photo Credit: Technology Review

By Lee Gomes

Microsoft has San Francisco, Minnesota, the United States Department of Agriculture, the European Environmental Agency, and the Regional Government of Catalonia.

But Google is doing pretty well too, with Los Angeles, Orlando, Singapore’s ministry of education, four states in Mexico, and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Those government agencies represent some of the trophy customers for Microsoft and Google as the two rivals wrestle for converts to their competing versions of cloud computing.

http://www.technologyreview.com/business/38712/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-10-05

 
 
 

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