In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Ezekiel
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on Thu, 4 Sep 2008 10:50:23 -0400
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> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> * Ezekiel peremptorily fired off this memo:
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>>>> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>>>> Google Apps tops 1 million businesses
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>>>>> | Almost all of the company's revenue comes from its search engine,
>>>>> which
>>>>> last
>>>>> | quarter accounted for more than $5 billion. New initiatives, such as
>>>>> the
>>>>> | Chrome browser, Google Gears, and Google Friend Connect, are focused
>>>>> on
>>>>> | building a mostly open-source Internet operating system out of Google
>>>>> | technology in order to funnel more user data and targeted advertising
>>>>> | opportunities into the Googleplex financial engine.
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>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-10029861-80.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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>>>> Once again the dishonest scumbag liar (Roy Schestowitz) fabricates false
>>>> and misleading headlines.
>>
>> Back at cha'.
>>
>> Businesses that otherwise would purchase Microsoft Office did not! They
>> went
>> over to Google. There are some major examples like the Daily Telegraph,
>> IIRC.
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> When the article says that Google Apps "is a puny business" that is only
> 0.03% the size of MS-Office - what part of that escapes you?
And how is it *that* much? Last I looked Google Apps were given
away free.
http://techland.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/category/google/
does mention a $50/person business software license price.
However, most large businesses strongly prefer Microsoft.
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> <quote>
> Even with a few enterprise wins, Google Apps is a puny business. According
> to a Fortune article, Google brought in about $4 million with its Google
> Apps business in 2007, compared with $12.2 billion for Microsoft Office.
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>> Sales of Microsoft Office declined. They declined for a reason
>> and Google is part of it.
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> In theory yes. The same way that if I piss into the ocean in theory the
> level of the sea rises. But only a dishonset scumbag moron like Roy
> Schestowitz would claim that this "puny" app from Google is "killing"
> Microsoft Office.
>
Pissing into the world's oceans:
Piss volume: 500 cc (max)
Ocean volume: 1.37 * 10^18 m^3 or 1.37 * 10^21 liters
Ratio: 3.65 * 10^-22
Ocean area: 3.61 * 10^14 m^2
Average ocean depth: 3790 m
Expected rise: 1.38 * 10^-15 m
Van der Waals radius of a hydrogen atom: 1.20 * 10^-10 m
barn (unit of area for describing nuclear reactions): (10^-14 m)^2
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