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Google Exec Hints At Future Open Platform

Posted by timothy on from the all-very-vague dept.

rsmiller510 writes "At the recent Web 2.0 Summit, Dave Girouard, who is president of Google's enterprise division, stated that his company's long-term goal is to open up the Google development stack to outside developers. If this is true, then it could have some serious long-term implications for developers who could use Google services in new and interesting ways."

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  1. It's a Smart Strategy by Anik315 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Allowing everyone to help out with Google's product development is a smart strategy because of how difficult it is becoming to keep up with software enthusiasts who like to collaborate on open source projects. It will be interesting to see how Google will be able to harness the power of collaborative development in their core products.

    1. Re:It's a Smart Strategy by rfelsburg · · Score: 2, Interesting

      As much as I would love to see google's code become open source, I have a feeling that's not what they were talking about. At the moment, their apps are what are making them a substantial amount of money, if all of a sudden gmail became open source what would that do to their business.

      I have a feeling this is more Ala Apple, where they are interested in creating some semblance of openness by allowing some interaction from outside developers.

      -Rob

  2. Isn't that called App Engine? by Wesley+Felter · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Google has been opening up their platform already; App Engine gives developers (some) access to GFS, BigTable, auto-scaling magic, etc.