Google for email support

I was wondering if this would happen. Google's email service is fantastic, better than any other webmail client that a college could offer, IMHO. And it looks like I am not the only one with that opinion. One school is now outsourcing their email support to Google. Will others follow?

Liberal Education Today - Campus turns to Google for email support: "One American campus is outsourcing its email to Google. San Jose City College email accounts will be hosted by the search giant, who has been running its email program, Gmail, for several years. Users' email domains will not appear as Google's."

via NITLE's Liberal Education Today