simondelliott » desktop http://www.simondelliott.com/blog media architect Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:24:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Get out of Enterprise Google! http://www.simondelliott.com/blog/2009/07/get-out-of-enterprise-google/ http://www.simondelliott.com/blog/2009/07/get-out-of-enterprise-google/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:46:13 +0000 simon http://www.simondelliott.com/blog/?p=447 If you combine the modern Californian way of talking and a bit of old school religion you get Googles moto

Dont Be Evil

Here are things you need to know about them

#1

What we see of google on the out side is just the tip of the ice burg. For every idea that gets turned into product they make a 1000 that stay on the inside … this is the innovation methodology

#2

The google Microsoft story is the same as the Microsoft IBM story, to find out what happens to google next read a book.

#3

Google are forcing telcos to behave as a dumb pipe but the Telco’s are not going down without a fight, their response  is IMS.
Both outcomes are anti consumer !

#4

Google are kicking arse in the enterprise space
Google Search appliances are flying off the shelves to the big companies,
For the Small companies the rate of signup to google apps is astonishing
In the education sector they will soon be standard ! especially in higher education. Google K2 is free for this sector and in UK market schools are switching from RM so fast that RM cannot keep up with demand to turn off their services.
The hand that rocks the cradle …

From my  perspective …

Googles applications are great,
how they run their company is great
their attitude to embracing odd balls and weirdos is great.

I just cant help thinking that Its a pathetic that they choose to waste their dreams, talent and creativity on such a pathetic goal as taking down Microsoft

Google if you are listening, another way of saying Don’t be evil, is to say love everyone, and that includes the small state run telcos in little socialist european countries, the developers who want to make a living selling software and microsoft.

Sort it out … you can do so much better that.

Add these points along these lines

· What we see of google on the out side is just the tip of the ice burg. For every idea that gets turned into product they make a 1000 that stay on the inside … this is the innovation methodology

· The google Microsoft story is the same as the Microsoft IBM story, to find out what happens to google next read a book … this is an opportunity for Atos

· Add a note that Telco’s are not going down without a fight. their response to being forced into a dumb pipe role is IMS … this is opportunity for Atos

· On the contrary about the enterprise space … Google are kicking arse in that area,
Google Search appliances are flying off the shelves to the big companies,
For the Small companies the rate of signup to google apps is astonishing
In the education sector they will soon be standard !   especially in higher education. Google K2 is free for this sector and in UK market schools are switching from RM so fast that RM cannot keep up with demand to turn off their services
down turn is driving adoption

Froma user perspective …

Googles applications are great, how they run their company is great their attitude to embracing od balls and weirds is great.

Its a pathetic that they choose to waste their dreams, talent and creativity on such a pathetic goal as taking down Microsoft

Don’t be evil …

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Printing a document is becoming seen as socially unacceptable and is more often than not more inconvenient than reading on the screen.

Do these different forces spell the end for MS Word?
and if word dies will the rest of the desktop software also die?

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