# Prof. Arun Sundararajan on the Google apps transition

1 Faculty News April 4, 2012 ![Wall Street Journal logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/wsjlogo.jpg?itok=5Qt0z3WX)>

Excerpt from [The Wall Street Journal blog](http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2012/03/20/google-apps-godfather-making-his-exi/) -- "'Girouard’s leaving Google now is less serious than it would have been a couple years ago,' [Sundararajan](http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan) said. Girouard was such a strong presence in evangelizing Google’s cloud the last five years that CIOs of small and large businesses alike are comfortable with the platform and strategy, he added."

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