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I don't feel right about the UC Davis report. Google Apps (the education editions) has the option to disable advertising for domain so ads and the resulting scanning for ads can't be the real reason. Postini offers more security and archiving for compliance, but it isn't free like the Google Apps for Edu package.
As stated in the article, Buzz really has nothing to do with Google Apps so it couldn't be part of the decision, and it's really the only privacy snafu that Google has had.
It just feels like UC Davis wants to stick with what it has. There may be a mostly Outlook solution right now, and Outlook users are extremely hard to move off that platform. I've read where they are the #1 reason that migrations to Google Apps fail.
If, on the other hand, everyone is checking e-mail with Mutt, then I don't see why they wouldn't want to move.
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