Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
RBW wrote:
I've always thought that companies that Microsoft targeted as
competitors found themselves in an intense fight to survive as a
business but Bill Gates just enjoyed the competition like a street
fight, and the competition never knew what hit them. It appears to me
BG's dander is up and he's ready for another street fight and Google,
unlike Novell, Sun and even IBM, is a street fighting SOB just like
BG is...
Maybe. I'm not convinced that we have seen Google tested yet and how
it responds to pressure.
Google has a single revenue stream. That stream is under active
attack from more fronts than just Microsoft. The converse is not true.
-a
This is what I was alluding to as far as what Google represents as a
challenge to M$ by presenting an alternative to creating work product
output from applications that must run on a particular OS. Since Google
technically just needs the Internet (quasi-OSness) to deliver apps, M$
is in a position which it can't shoot the medium that Google wants to
expand the delivery of apps to end users. M$ is smart though and just
like their intensive activities through their IP lawyers for future
assaults on Linux they will get to work trying to crack this nut too.
"Schmidt and McNealy only hinted at the real importance behind their
public display of affection, which is expanding the Web to a point where
online applications eventually eliminate the need for conventional
personal computers.
Instead, we would only need ``thin clients'' -- low-cost, relatively
unintelligent boxes that only connect us to the Internet, where we'll do
everything from reading e-mail to creating spreadsheets to editing photos."
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/12818048.htm
I admire the gumption of Google even if I am skeptical that they can
pull it off...
For one thing they will need a much higher reliability for Internet
connectivity for most end users above and beyond just extending the
reach of broadband...
RBW
"M$ basically does three things, marketing, litigating and publishing
software... They suck really badly at only one of those three things"
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