Litigation Win: Google vs. Microsoft on DoI Cloud Service worth of $60 Million.

According to Bizjournals and I quoted here 

"A federal court ordered the Interior Department to halt all plans to award a contract for web-based email, following a lawsuit filed by Google Inc. that claimed the solicitation broke procurement rules.

U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge Susan Braden filed an injunction on Tuesday that barred the Interior Department from proceeding with or awarding a contract to implement Microsoft Corp.'s suite of online email and collaboration tools, and remanded the procurement — which seeks to consolidate 13 different e-mail systems into a single web-based platform — back to Interior "for additional investigation or explanation." The contract is worth nearly $60 million.

Google sued Interior in October for allegedly violating procurement rules by specifying in its bid request that "only the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite" for federal government could be proposed."

This is one of the battle between Google and Microsoft on cloud service and it seems that Google is winning the first round by getting an injunction. overall, it will delay government's cloud adoption and intensify the competition on cloud offering between big companies such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc. It will be interesting to follow up any new advance on this litigation.

Read more: Google gets judge to halt Microsoft contract | Washington Business Journal 

http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/blog/2011/01/court-halts-fed-contract-with-microsoft.html?ed=2011-01-06&s=article_du&ana=e_du_pap