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Pleasing Google's Tech-Savvy Staff

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the nobody-even-tries-to-please-us dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Douglas Merrill, Google Inc.'s chief information officer, is charged with answering that question. His job is to give Google workers the technology they need, and to keep them safe — without imposing too many restrictions on how they do their job. So the 37-year-old has taken an unorthodox approach. Unlike many IT departments that try to control the technology their workers use, Mr. Merrill's group lets Google employees download software on their own, choose between several types of computers and operating systems, and use internal software built by the company's engineers. Lately, he has also spent time evangelizing to outside clients about Google's own enterprise-software products — such as Google Apps, an enterprise version of Google's Web-based services including e-mail, word processing and a calendar."

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  1. Google's Staff by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This should please Google's "staff"

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  2. Goatse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Goatse.

    You nerd faggots love it.

    In other news, Zeus still sucks cock.