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Google's Crazy Lack of Focus: Is It Really Serious About Enterprise?

Posted by Soulskill on from the looking-for-ways-to-put-ads-in-your-brain dept.

curtwoodward writes "Driverless cars. Balloon-based wireless networks. Face-mounted computers. Gigabit broadband networks. In recent months, Google has been unveiling a series of transformative side projects that paint a picture of the search pioneer expanding far beyond an online advertising company. At the same time, Google has been trying to convince enterprise software buyers that it's finally, really, truly serious about competing with Microsoft for their business. Which version of Google's future should you believe?"

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  1. Discontinue Unsuccessful Products by tuppe666 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Except closing down projects

    I have a bookshelf behind me with a whole host of dead languages, and products from Adobe and Microsoft that have been discontinued. Unsuccessful (and sometimes successful for strategic reasons) software will be discontinues, companies are trying to make money.

    FYI Googles Enterprise Apps doesn't get Ads...maybe you are thinking of Windows 8.

  2. Re:All of them. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Thats why I had "close" between brackets. The parent post said "without warning" and I decided to stick with it. Their announcements of projects ending does come unexpected sometimes, but their actual closing date is very reasonable, with plenty of time to migrate.