LA adopts online software

19:33 17th July 2009

The City council of Los Angeles could be about to get rid of its day-to-day software and opt for services provided online.

By signing a contract with search giant Google the city will join Washington D.C. in using the firm's email and word processing facilities, the LA Times has reported.

The current system used in county offices in LA was described by a spokesperson for the mayor as "Pac-Man-era technology".

Once in place all the city's data would transfer to secure servers and exist online, rather than behind the walls of county offices.

This move 'into the cloud' is a current theme, now covered on web design courses established to help people hoping to change career learn new skills.

Windows has released a cloud computing platform, Azure, which it hopes will convince businesses to entrust them with their data.

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