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Google CEO Talks Business

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the where-the-money-is dept.

prostoalex writes "InformationWeek interviews Google CEO on Google's enterprise strategy. No cool products announcements or anything related to personal technology - Eric Schmidt talks about Google's offerings for the enterprise market."

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  1. Wrong, but thanks for playing. by Pheersome · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Schmidt: Transparency is not necessarily the only way you achieve security. For example, part of the encryption algorithms are not typically made available to the open source community, because you don't want people discovering flaws in the encryption.
    I hope he didn't really mean that; I had a fairly good opinion of him, but that statement is (IMO) a pretty serious misunderstanding of The Way Things Should Be. We (the security-loving Internet elite) want maximal transparency for all of our systems, cryptographic and otherwise, so problems are found and fixed... right?

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    1. Re:Wrong, but thanks for playing. by putko · · Score: 2, Insightful

      There are different kinds of people in this world.

      Some try to make sure that they don't say b.s. about things they don't understand. Others try to sound smart and then say something stupid.

      It is a bit like a kid playing with nunchucks and hitting himself in the nuts. But at least then you know that you are not Bruce Lee.

      This guy probably still thinks he understands cryptography.

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  2. My request to Google... by bogaboga · · Score: 4, Insightful
    ...is to synchronize the release of tools for major browsers including Firefox. That is, they (Google) should release their "add-ons" at once for all browsers. This is because if they for example released this for IE first, by the time that for Firefox is released, the steam is almost out.

    Next, my request is to make sure they go for M$ and Yahoo head on. I need GoogleBiz (to check my stocks), I need GoogleMusic, GoogleRadio and all that is possible.

  3. Re:Hmmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Can a third dupe be called a "trupe"?

  4. Re:Google turns Neocon with new Executive Hirings by bogie · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well one hire isn't exactly a "trend".

    About him, he is about as far right as it gets so automatically I of course hate him, but let's see where google is 5 years from now before you call what they are doing evil.

    Not to excuse them for hiring someone "like him" but I'd be more suprised if they hird someone way left of center to be their "new Global Communications and Strategy VP". Its a right leaning time afterall and if anyone can grease the wheels for Google domination in both the us and aboard its a humanoid like him.

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  5. Re:UW talk by Momoru · · Score: 2, Insightful

    One impression I've gotten of Google compared to, say, Microsoft, is how quick they are to release new products

    They "release" products that are in beta all the time. If your talking when the beta tag comes off, Google's software cycles are really long (The search was beta for like 5 years).

    Also it's kind of apple's and oranges. It takes significantly more time to write an email client for Windows then it does to write a web mail client or many of Google's other programs. Google also can just "put something out there" on the web and see how people like it. Microsoft doesn't have that luxury since most of their products are software apps, not web apps. I also expect that because of the Web Accelerator debacle, Google will take a little more time to throughly vet things before putting them out there.

  6. Re:Gmail Lockdowns?! by chrisd · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Have you considered filing a bug, putz?

    Chris

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  7. Re:UW talk by fbg111 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There's also the free (large) cafeteria.

    Specifically calculated by Google to cut the lost productivity costs of Google staff leaving the campus everyday for lunch. He said this in his graduation speech at University of Michigan.

    3) Investor control. What investor control? The founders still control the majority voting block, and have ensured they will remain in control. One might as well just donate money to Google, because there's no accountability.

    Who would you rather have calling the shots at Google, Brin and Page who have so far done a bang-up job, or a bunch of second-guessing, know-nothing, back-seat-driving, kick-back-giving, short-term-only-thinking, racketeering, conniving Wall St. llamas? Having lived in NYC and worked on Wall St., I vote the former anyday. There's no honest endeavor that Wall St. can do that good engineers can't do better and with more integrity.

    When Google starts missing Wall St. numbers, expect perqs to vanish and layoffs to ensue. Also expect outsourcing to increase. Google will then be like every other public company.

    Doubt it. Google already weathered the .com bust and recession of the early 2000s. They only hire the most highly educated people they can find, and only have about 1500 employees. Google isn't a company of application developers, it's a company of computer scientists. Further, one reason Larry & Sergei retained control of the company is so that they can prevent making short-term Wall St. numbers from ever becoming a priority at Google. They're in it for the long-term, which is good for long-term investors, the kind most companies would give their left nut to attract.

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  8. Re:Gmail Lockdowns?! by sabat · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Gee, Chris, do you think calling your customers "putz" is a good idea?

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