____/ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Monday 17 December 2007 00:00 : \____
> <Quote>
> Mountain View, California: A CEREBRAL computer-scientist-turned-
> executive, Eric Schmidt has spent much of his career competing uphill
> against Microsoft, quietly watching it outflank, outmaneuver or simply
> outgun most of its rivals....
>
> "The fundamental Google model is to try to change all the rules of the
> software world," says David Yoffie, a professor at the Harvard
> Business School. If Google succeeds, Yoffie says, "a lot of the value
> that Microsoft provides today is potentially obsolete."...
>
> Analysts note that Google is a different competitor from others
> Microsoft has dispatched in recent years: it is bigger, faster-
> growing, loaded with cash and a magnet for talent. And the technology
> of the Google cloud opens doors. Its vast data centers are designed by
> Google engineers for efficiency, speed and low cost, giving the
> company an edge in computing firepower and allowing it to add
> offerings inexpensively....
>
> Another draw [for the smartest engineers] is Google's embrace of
> experimentation and open-ended job assignments. Recent college
> graduates are routinely offered jobs at Google without being told what
> they will be doing. The company does this partly to keep corporate
> secrets locked up, but often it also doesn't know what new hires will
> be doing....
>
> The challenge for Microsoft is not the ability to do much of what
> Google does. Instead, the company faces a business quandary. The
> Microsoft approach is largely to try to link the Web to its desktop
> business -- "software plus Internet services," in its formulation. It
> will embrace the Web, while striving to maintain the revenue and
> profits from its desktop software businesses, the corporate gold mine.
> That is a smart strategy for Microsoft and its shareholders for now,
> but it may not be sustainable....
> </Quote>
>
> http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/16/technology/16google.5.php
I found this in:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/technology/16goog.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
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| In our view, yes,” [Google CEO Eric] Schmidt says. “It’s a 90-10 thing.”
| Inside the cloud resides “almost everything you do in a company, almost
| everything a knowledge worker does.”...
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Bear in mind that Google is very big in clouds. Recent articles include:
Is Red Hat's New Development Environment Destined for an Amazon or IBM Cloud?
,----[ Quote ]
| So who will be the one to move their tools environment to the Amazon cloud
| first? Perhaps Amazon will offer several tools options, such as one for web
| apps and mashups, and another (or two) for Java development? You know you
| want to, Jeff.
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http://seekingalpha.com/article/56865-is-red-hat-s-new-development-environment-destined-for-an-amazon-or-ibm-cloud?source=yahoo
Aiming for the Clouds: The Red Hat Q&A
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| Q: To get back to the original question, what is your assessment of the
| potential impact?
|
| A: It’s early, but November’s news was a good indication that innovation
| amongst economic models and deployment scenarios is still possible. Not to
| dismiss the importance of some of the new features of RHEL 5.1, but over the
| longer term I think AOS and the Cloud offering are far more important than
| mere bells and whistles, because they make Red Hat a competitor in markets
| where its penetration is currently low. Even if it’s success in those areas,
| then, is minimal, the news remains very significant.
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http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/11/19/redhat_cloud/
Will the biggest clouds stay open source?
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| Everyone wants to become Google these days. In a way.
|
| Google runs Linux.
|
| A lot of enterprises, from banking to health care, are now looking to deploy
| gigantic Internet-facing applications to customer sets numbering in the tens
| of millions. (Government, too.)
|
| The biggest and best IT system suppliers are gearing up for what they
| call “cloud” computing. IBM floated its offering today.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1684
Xcerion's Internet Cloud Forms Over Google and Microsoft
,----[ Quote ]
| If successful, it may be able to further erode the power Microsoft
| derives from control of the desktop, to beat Google at its
| software-as-a-service play, and to make commodity Linux boxes more
| viable as a computing platform for the masses.
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http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=R2FGBWGYKLN5OQSNDLPCKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=197700815&queryText=xml
http://tinyurl.com/ynkp9q
IBM's Blue Cloud: The Tipping Point for Enterprise IT as Service
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| IBM's Blue Cloud, arriving in the first half of 2008, will use IBM
| BladeCenter servers, a Linux operating system, Xen-based virtualization and
| the company's own Tivoli management software.
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http://seekingalpha.com/article/54406-ibm-s-blue-cloud-the-tipping-point-for-enterprise-it-as-service?source=yahoo
IBM to turn datacenters into 'computing cloud'
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| IBM is calling the initiative Blue Cloud, and compared its significance to
| its decision several years ago to throw its weight behind Linux, which helped
| the open-source OS become more widely accepted by corporations.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20071115/tc_infoworld/93434
Also from the NYT (which is typically biased in favour of Microsoft, due to
interpersonal/financial relationship, I suppose:
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| At Microsoft, Mr. Schmidt’s remarks are fighting words. Traditional software
| installed on personal computers is where Microsoft makes its living, and its
| executives see the prospect of 90 percent of computing tasks migrating to the
| Web-based cloud as a fantasy.
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Remember what Ballmer said about Schmidt? Remember what he did?
Behavior May Suggest We're Not Only Human
,----[ Quote ]
| When Emory University primatologist Frans de Waal read a news story that
| said Microsoft's chief executive, Steve Ballmer, had hurled a chair
| across the room on hearing an employee was going to work for rival
| Google, the scientist immediately made a connection with his own
| research: "When I see such behavior, I think of a chimpanzee."
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/18/AR2007031801130.html?nav=rss_nation
Back to the NTY:
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| “It’s, of course, totally inaccurate compared with where the market is today
| and where the market is headed,” says Jeff Raikes, president of Microsoft’s
| business division, which includes the Office products.
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Every now and then, Microsoft will say that its core business isn't bound to
become obsolete any time soon, but it's contradicting such wishful thinking
with actual words of war.
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| Microsoft has warned Google to steer clear of corporate search,
| declaring that the market is "our house"....
|
| "Those people are not going to be allowed to take food off our plate,
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| because that is what they are intending to do."
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2160431/microsoft-warns-google-business
And this is why:
Microsoft to partners: It's time to change
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| Aiming to rally its partners around the reality of hosted software, Microsoft
| Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner told them it was a matter of financial
| life and death.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6195764.html
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