Google Slowing Down, Sitting on the Sidelines
March 24, 2009
IDC has been showing some zip. Two articles caught my attention because both point out vulnerabilities in this formidable company. You must read both of these articles. They were:
- The ComputerWorld story “Pentaho and Amazon.com Deliver BI to the Cloud” here. The story reported that Amazon, the cloud computing retailer, hooked up with Pentaho. The goal is to deliver business intelligence. How is this germane to Google? In my opinion, Google is not in this game. The company’s failure to respond to Amazon’s cloud computing challenge underscores the fact that Google is not as nimble as Google. I was hoping that Eric Lai would have pointed out that Google is simply not at this dance.
- The IDG news service story “Google Apps Missing Enterprise Social-Networking Revolution” here. This story was distributed by Reuters and it pointed out that Google’s Orkut is not hooked into Google Apps.”
Is Google falling behind? In my view, Google is the cat’s meow. To some Google watchers, I think one can make a case that the GOOG is not able to keep pace with some of its more nimble rivals. IDC seems to be on top of this issue.
Stephen Arnold, March 24, 2009
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