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Rank: Elder Joined: 9/15/2006 Posts: 3,907
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Fortune magazine at the newsstand claims Google is now an old company, and the rate of growth has slowed down. Despite all the hard work 91% of revenues come from Search and 99% of profits from the same old search. A company achieves stratospheric heights when they can innovate the second time: - Microsoft from DOS to Office - Apple from Mac to iTunes/iPod/iPhone. It prooves that they are able to replicate the ingredients of success. So Google has worked so hard to acquire YouTube, develop GMail, create Google Apps, Android/Nexus One... But the big question remains Is Google Over?Excerpt: Consider the case of American graduate student James Buck. Egyptian police detained Buck for taking photographs of a protest in a city outside Cairo. Using his cellphone and his Twitter account, Buck broadcast a single word, "arrested." Buck's network alerted officials at the University of California at Berkeley, who ultimately got the U.S. State Department and a local lawyer involved. Buck was out of jail in 24 hours. Try that with a keyword search.
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Rank: Member Joined: 11/20/2008 Posts: 367
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@Mugunda, that is true but a WSJ article, and one from Motley say that the company is gearing up for cloud computing.
In fact the article says that Google is one of the companies that are building colossal data storage centers in secret locations.
I may not write it off just yet.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/26/2007 Posts: 6,514
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Cloud is the future, and there are few visible contenders to compete with Google on that. Apple has had every opportunity, but their focus of controlling your content has really limited them in this line. I think they are the only other players. Business opportunities are like buses,there's always another one coming
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Rank: Elder Joined: 9/7/2010 Posts: 2,148 Location: elderville
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What is this cloud computing malarkey? He who can express in words the ardour of his love, has but little love to express. - Petrach, Son. (That men by various ways arrive at the same end. - Montaigne, The Essays of.)
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Rank: Member Joined: 11/20/2008 Posts: 367
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@Elder, malarkey, dude if you've not heard of cloud computing, you should be called Ancient.
But seriously this is the biggest threat to companies such as Microsoft, Oracle and even some hardware companies.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 9/15/2006 Posts: 3,907
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Though techies would like to differentiate between mainframes and cloud computing, isn't it interesting how 50 years later we seem to be preferring main processing to be done in central locations effectively rendering our computers to some form of dumb terminals?
I agree with @KulaRaha, cloud computing is the future. Major providers of cloud computing however include Microsoft, Salesforce, Amazon, and Google. Microsoft has Azure (windows), Business Productivity Online (Exchange, SharePoint, Live Meeting), Service Provider Licensing (SPLA)
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/26/2007 Posts: 6,514
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Problem with Microsoft is that they dont do the internet particularily well (just like Apple). This will limit them when it comes to cloud. Amazon is a great company.....Ive not ehard of Salesforce. Business opportunities are like buses,there's always another one coming
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Rank: Elder Joined: 9/7/2010 Posts: 2,148 Location: elderville
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the sage wrote:@Elder, malarkey, dude if you've not heard of cloud computing, you should be called Ancient.
But seriously this is the biggest threat to companies such as Microsoft, Oracle and even some hardware companies. I have heard of this cloudy stuff it is just it has been the future for so long that ni tu kama ile Arsenal young team of the future au Liverpool's it is our year to win the league. He who can express in words the ardour of his love, has but little love to express. - Petrach, Son. (That men by various ways arrive at the same end. - Montaigne, The Essays of.)
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Rank: Elder Joined: 11/13/2008 Posts: 1,565
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the sage wrote:@Elder, malarkey, dude if you've not heard of cloud computing, you should be called Ancient.
But seriously this is the biggest threat to companies such as Microsoft, Oracle and even some hardware companies. Quite the contrary - for SW companies its about a different delivery model and for HW companies its a plus in many regards...
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Rank: Elder Joined: 11/13/2008 Posts: 1,565
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@Muganda - you ask if Google is over - the link you provide however relates to the search engine battle - which quite frankly has been won by Google...and they are opening new fronts to the war...mobile and applications (SaaS). Not sure if you use Google Chrome, Gtalk, gmail, Google Docs - all those are basic examples of SaaS - but free SaaS.
1 - Operating System and desktop - The idea is to evolve Chrome into an operating system so you can just buy a basic machine without an OS and as long as you have the internet - you can do your wordprocessing, spreadsheeting, chatting (and VoiP), search, emailing, scheduling and collaboration, etc....the OS war will then be won....exit Microsoft
2 - Mobile - you must have read about all the buzz relating to Android - the Google mobile operating system. Its uptake is phenomenal - currently Windows Mobile is about less than 2% of all mobile operating systems (Android, Symbian) are other examples. In the mobile front, Google also hass its own handset - Google Nexus. Think about this - if you have ever used Skype or Gtalk or Yahoo to have a VoiP Call - if on google nexus or an Android based phone, and with 3G tech becoming more pervasive, you can have a Gtalk voice conversation - free - just the data costs - so you can chat with your Aunt/Brother/Friend in Antarctica at the fraction of the cost.
No...Google has just sunk its teeth in and is starting to chew on other players....
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