More on Google as a Monopoly
November 13, 2008
If you want some Google as a monopoly goodness, click here. The article “The Google Monopoly Expands” gathers together information that supports the Google as monopoly assertion. Joe Wilcox summarizes information that will provide attorneys with some excitement. For me, one of the most telling comments in the article was this statement:
We now have two loveable losers, Sun and Microsoft, in a last-ditch gasp, but to do what? Sun is past the point of stopping people from defecting to other low-end servers…Also, not to put too fine a point on it, but who the heck uses StarOffice?
Google may prefer reading articles that praise the firm’s “green” programs, its lava lamps, or its track record of innovations. Google’s power does not seem to intimidate Mr. Wilcox. For me, my feathers are quivering in fear.
Stephen Arnold, November 13, 2008
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Joe Wilcox’ article is here: http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/web_services_browser/the_google_monopoly_expands.html The link in your posting is broken (at least I can’t get it to work).
On topic: Sun has never been good at selling software… in fact, they’ve always created, adopted or acquired open products and standards (like NFS, Java, OpenOffice, MySQL) which ultimately were intended to primarily support sales of their hardware. Sun is still a hardware company.
As for these products (and I do include OpenOffice), they have all become rather successful and widespread (or in the case of MySQL were that even before the acquisition). OpenOffice is very popular in academic environments and increasingly so also in large corporates in Europe just in the same way as Linux gains market shares in corporate data centers.
The Google “Monopoly or not” is still only strong on the Internet, not inside companies. Google has failed to really enter the corporate market with search propositions in the way they intended, and the recent announcements show that they again focus more on the Internet side of life. Business on corporate intranets is totally different.
In that sense, no, Google may be strong, but they’re indeed nobody to be afraid of. If Sun or Microsoft get into troubles, IMHO it is not due to Google’s works… it’s their very own problem.
–Jürgen
Jurgen Wagner,
Thanks.
Stephen Arnold, November 13, 2008