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Microsoft signs Portland Public Schools as cloud customer

February 24, 2011 /

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Portland Public Schools has signed on as a Microsoft customer of the Live@edu cloud computing service.

The service will replace Novell GroupWise software, which the school district is now running on its own servers. Live@edu will provide e-mail for 8,500 faculty and staff and high school students in the fall, Microsoft said today. The service and e-mails are stored in Microsoft’s data centers and accessed by students and faculty via the Internet.

Both Google and Microsoft bid on the contract, Microsoft said.

Posted by Sharon Pian Chan

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