David Sarno for the L.A. Times:

Despite a flurry of lobbying by arch rival Microsoft Corp., the council agreed to shut down the city’s in-house messaging system and transfer e-mail operations for its 30,000 employees to Google’s nationwide network of servers.

And Councilman Tony Cardenas:

“The city of Los Angeles, the second-largest city in the nation, made a world-class decision today to support a state-of-the-art e-mail system.”

My school supplies all students with an email address powered by Google. There have been zero problems up to this point.