Ok this might be old news to many people but to some this is news, so don’t email me about it, if it isn't news to you!
The people that Microsoft needs to worry about aren’t Apple or anti-trust lawyers, it is Google. MS makes most of its money not on its OS’s but on other products like Office and the database products. If you haven’t noticed Google has a whole set of productivity tools, browser objects, OS add-ons, email, etc. If Google bought Open Office, and partnered with Firefox, they could put out a serious competitor to MS Office/IE.
Then how much longer do you think it would be until Google put out a Linux-based OS with native support for Google tools? People would eat that up, sure it wouldn’t hurt MS’s OS sales very much at first. However, if Linux became easy to use, and Google could ensure a revenue stream by linking you out to a webpage with ads when you typed a sentence in Google Documents, and that paid for development, it could start to eat away at MS’s profits. Worse because MS products don’t work well on Linux systems, (if at all), MS couldn’t compete. There’s more!
When Google really wants to hurt MS, it will start developing database products. If Google had a product that could take away to the Access market and some of the SQL market from MS, that would really really hurt. Now is Google gunning for MS? Yes! Does Google want to be in the database area? Who knows. I am just a guy who posts stuff to the web.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Google OS?
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