Tuesday brought a wave of delight for Google Inc., as the Los Angeles City Council members approved a multi-million dollar proposal post which Google's services to oversee government e-mails and internet services will be employed. This is being seen as one of the biggest boons for the net giant, who has lately been facing tough competition from rival Microsoft.

As a result of unanimous voting, it was decided that in a $7.2 Million deal, Google Apps services would replace those currently provided by Computer Sciences Corp. post the end of Government's contract with the same.

Under the approved deal, Google will be responsible for providing e-mail, chatting, calendar and other similar web based services to 3,000 government employees across the city. With the Google deal, the government will be ending its 7 year old tie up with Novell Inc.'s GroupWise E-Mail and Record-Keeping Software, which has lately faced much criticism by the employees. It is, reportedly, very crash-prone and slow.

Google was picked over dozens of other very eager technology firms which has sent bids for the deal, including the arch rival, Microsoft.