Search is Google's cash cow and Windows OSs and Office applications are Microsoft's cash cows. The key here is that Microsoft is vulnerable as more and more business implement Cloud Computing services (Infrastructure, Platform and Software) from various providers. Microsoft has several weapons to protect its dominant desktop and server markets in the Enterprise. Bing is Microsoft's well funded and potentially competitive offering against Google Search. Likewise, Chrome, Chrome OS and Google Apps are Google's well funded and, hopefully someday, competitive offerings against Windows OSs, IE, MS Office and Office 365. This war is just starting and will play out over the next decade. And I think consumers and businesses will benefit from the competition. I wonder what IBM is doing?
"The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency." -- Bill Gates --
Welcome to my personal blog. I work in the information technology industry with over twenty years of experience in systems engineering, sales and management. I am a Google Chrome OS Pilot playing with the free CR-48 Chromebook I received from Google and testing their new Chrome Operating System. Note that I am not employed by Google. I hope you find the topics I write about interesting and informative. Your feedback is always welcome. Gabe
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Google vs Microsoft in the Enterprise
I think that Chrome and Chrome OS give Google a fighting chance to compete with Microsoft for the SMB, Enterprise and Government markets. Today Microsoft is the dominant desktop infrastructure vendor. Over 80% of all business use desktops and servers running Windows OSs and most of them use MS Office applications. The remaining is a very fragmented market divided between Apple and all the versions of Linux.
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