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I'm not sure why you're stating that their service is vulnerable. For one, Google itself uses only google products within the company, starting with email, shared docs, calendars etc. And if you want to say google is not a serious company.. Also, there are probably thousands of companies that outsourced their email system to google, and also hundreds of universities in the US. And if a company uses it, you can easily imagine that the stuff circulating in their system is much more sensitive and important than our e-mail that we send. Migrating to google based apps will bring our costs of maintaining the email system, the future upgrades to newer equipment, etc. that a lot of $ in future spending that can be spent on other priorities, and we all know that we are financially constrained. I'm sure the Administration should seriously consider this idea and do a benefit/cost analysis. And in response to another comment, this is taken from a google site: "Integration options let you connect Google Apps to your existing IT infrastructure" "Single sign-on API connects Google Apps to your existing authentication system." More here http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/details.html#b6 I'm not an IT or COS guy, but I'm pretty sure google can find a way to implement their services into our IT infrastructure.