Like LA Police department and many others, we continue doubting the economics and the security of the decision made by the City to move towards the Google system. The City Council was also presented with some clear evidence that Google has posed a very significant risk to security of the City and to the citizen data, much of which is highly confidential. Additionally, the independent financial data has showed that new system will actually be costing more, and not less.

As the City faces massive deficit of budget, speculated benefits of budget for switching to the untested application are very enticing, but according to the report of an independent Los Angeles City Administrative Officer, this proposed system under consideration will be actually costing taxpayers an additional amount of $1.5 million during the first year. There are also significant costs related to migrating, training and also securing Google Apps.

Maybe the most important part of this rant of Novell is where it is saying that over 1,200 agencies of the U.S. use this product, which includes 47 of the 50 states of the U.S.