__/ [ John A. Bailo ] on Saturday 16 December 2006 19:17 \__
> Snit wrote:
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>> Both Google and Apple get the idea of a coordinated and integrated set of
>> tools better than most other big tech companies. I wish them both well.
I'm not too sure about Google.
Lack of Internal Talks at Microsoft, Google
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| Maybe my "Microsoft's Entertainment Domination" theory was a bit
| premature. Apparently, the Zune MP3 player isn't flying off shelves
| and now it turns out that the Zune is incompatible with Microsoft'
| latest Windows Vista operating system. Amazing how a disconnect like
| this can occur within an organization. Software start-ups are taking
| advantage of the lowered development costs and the speedy development
| time -- and forcing large software organizations to speed up their
| own development cycles, but in the process, the large organizations
| are fumbling to communicate effectively amongst their departments.
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/15/lack-of-internal-talks-at-microsoft-google/
I hear that Google have stopped throwing services onto 'the cloud' and are
currently working on integrating them. They will most likely create an
ecosystem of services that will set the field for an online O/S (Web browser
and /whichever/ O/S to bootstrap). Microsoft knows all of this, which is why
it tries to imitate (very unsuccessfully so far).
> Great point. Of all the Big Technology companies, only two that I can
> think of, that manufacture both hardware and software for direct sale:
> Apple and IBM.
>
> I wonder if Novell's strategy should include hardware rather than depending
> on OEMs so much.
>
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