Would You Buy A Used Car From This Man?
OK, I am sure I will not do myself any favors with this post. It essentially has no commercial value, either. But it’s my honest opinion and it is mind-boggling how long this charade has continued … and how many billions Google might have made in the meantime …
Google CEO Eric Schmidt in an onstage interview Wednesday at the Gartner Symposium in Orlando, Fla.
(Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET)
ORLANDO, Fla.–Eric Schmidt runs a company that earns most of its money from consumers, but the Google chief executive believes business customers are the company’s next big opportunity for growth after selling ads.
"Enterprise is a huge priority for the management team and me personally," Schmidt said Wednesday in an onstage interview in the belly of the enterprise technology beast, the Gartner Symposium here. "It’s the next big billion-dollar opportunity after our display (ad) business."
Google might not be at the core of every company’s operations, but Schmidt has some roots in the information technology community that assembles in force at Gartner Symposium. Before Google, he was chief technology officer at Sun Microsystems and CEO of Novell.
Google has a variety of business-oriented products and services–Postini for security, Checkout for online shopping, a search appliance for in-house search. But the highest profile effort is Google Apps, which in its premium incarnation delivers Gmail and an online office application suite for $50 per user per year. … read more of Google’s (Eric’s) foolish field of business dreams here.
In addition to all the many things we might debate about the merits (or lack of same) that might accrue by letting Matt Cutts (a man who believes Wikipedia is an authority) decide what business is appropriate for your company to talk about on the Internet, consider Eric’s track record.
Sun Microsystems was one the most prestigious power workstation source in the world. I bought dozens of Suns when I worked for the military and I even managed to piss off some general who saw one on my desk when he didn’t have one on his.
Eric ran them virtually into the ground. An accomplishment in itself.
Next, ever hear of Novell? When office computing got started there was literally no real way to network except for Novell. They owned so much of the market they might have had to worry about facing FTC probes regarding monopolies. Only companies and government organizations who were serious losers used non-Novell networks. The CEO who drove them off a cliff? You got it … our man Eric.
And this is the guy you trust to take a “propeller head” tech gizmo company like Google … which essentially makes money only from it’s consumer ads foundation and spends the rest of the time trying to re-shape the world at a negative cash flow … and chose this man to lead you into the corporate world? Mind boggling.
And what is also mind boggling is that any company would consider subjecting it’s employees … and worse, trusting it’s corporate data … to Google .. lock, stock and corporate memo? Mind boggling too.
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