Are Google Apps and Microsoft heading for a showdown?

Google\'s Application platform is awaiting an imminent stamp of approval from the federal government.

Google’s Application platform is awaiting an imminent stamp of approval from the federal government. FCW reports that Google hopes its Web-based application package can displace Microsoft’s entrenched hold on some parts of the government market. But it may have a tough time making any significant inroads into a market that Microsoft has dominated for years. Google introduced the Apps suite in 2007. In the fall of 2009, the software package began the FISMA-certification process.

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