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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. But do they offer solutions? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I am looking for solutions for my enterprise level e-synergy. Can Google help me actualize this?

  2. 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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  3. Re:Hmmm... by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Funny

    Be assured, there will be 3 dupes by morning as compensation.

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  4. Re:what is /. for ?? by PopeAlien · · Score: 4, Funny

    Speak for yourself, I come here for the great business news but I stay for the cowboy neal jokes.

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  5. 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.

  6. UW talk by Mtn_Dewd · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Eric Schmidt is really busy on showing just how progressive Google is right now. I just got out of a talk at University of Washington by him in which he addressed many interesting Google policy questions ranging from responsibilities, censorship, and corporate structure. They're really trying to establish that they aren't just another fad and are trying to find a way to meet the demands of an exponentially increasing task of information aggregation and retrieval.

    Interestingly, in our Computer Science department at UW, there is definitely an aura about Google. Everyone wants to work for them. They seem to defy all of the standard business models that we have grown to hate (ie: Office Space) and use a 70%, 20%, 10% rule that allows you to work on Google-related work, Personal-project-google-related work, and just personal work. I won't drag on about their structure, but I'm wondering if their business model and ideas will now spread into the mainstream corporate world.

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  7. Re:what is /. for ?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    pfffftttt /. exist for many reasons.

    Google luv
    SCO & M$ bashing
    roland pipquillle articles
    gnome vs. kde flame wars
    Best OS discussions

    those are just a few