Bottom line; you can be fired for just about anything. Do as you're told; or, don't, and start looking for another job.
General Rule: Don't start a battle you're not prepared to fight to the end, no matter the outcome. In this case, there is only one possible outcome... you lose.
Wow... I am sure that if you were to write an email like that, you would certainly be fired. It's dishonesty seeking to promote a personal agenda. This company does pay you, right?
If Google does this, it will be the brashest, ballsiest, and downright perfect move they could have ever made. This will not be like any browser we are currently familiar with. Unlike purely client-based browsers (IE, Opera, Firefox, etc.), GBROWSER will be intimately tied to GFS, the backbone that makes Google run. Less of a browser, more of a synchronization engine, GBROWSER will pass data back and forth between client nodes and Google servers, creating a symbiotic relationship between the two.
Want to search your local file system? You'll do it from GBROWSER, which communicates with Google servers, which happen to have a snapshot view of your entire file system - if not an entire carbon copy of it.
Even if it were possible for MS to buy then out, it would be morally, socially, and strategically reprehensible! Instead, these guys need to go for MS's jugular, and advertising is not the best way to do it. They need to capitalize on what truly makes them different - GFS (Google File System).
They need to expand Gmail to include all user files native on the PC (Gstore?). To do this, they will need to first purchase one or two storage management companies with serious brainshare to augment their already vast storage capabilities. Offer 20GB of FREE file storage. Users will depend less and less on their desktop as a tool for storing files and data. Kick Microsoft straight and hard in the balls by being the first to files off of the desktop and on to the network. 5 to 10 years from now, Google could be hosting the world.
Why Google would try to compete with MS on the desktop is beyond me. They have the greatest distributed file system (or "super computer") in commercial use today (see gmail). Challenging MS on the desktop would put to sleep Google's best asset, which COULD be used compete WITH the OS instead of having to DEPEND on it.
Google WILL become the next Netscape if they don't leverage the tools they already have.
Here's a thought: Google has a complete copy of the internet under their roof; why not build on that vision? 1 GB email is great... why not 20GB of "free" file storage? Use their massive distributed capabilities to get off of the desktop instead of developing new technologies to get on it.
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Bottom line; you can be fired for just about anything. Do as you're told; or, don't, and start looking for another job. General Rule: Don't start a battle you're not prepared to fight to the end, no matter the outcome. In this case, there is only one possible outcome... you lose.
Wow... I am sure that if you were to write an email like that, you would certainly be fired. It's dishonesty seeking to promote a personal agenda. This company does pay you, right?
If Google does this, it will be the brashest, ballsiest, and downright perfect move they could have ever made. This will not be like any browser we are currently familiar with. Unlike purely client-based browsers (IE, Opera, Firefox, etc.), GBROWSER will be intimately tied to GFS, the backbone that makes Google run. Less of a browser, more of a synchronization engine, GBROWSER will pass data back and forth between client nodes and Google servers, creating a symbiotic relationship between the two.
Want to search your local file system? You'll do it from GBROWSER, which communicates with Google servers, which happen to have a snapshot view of your entire file system - if not an entire carbon copy of it.
Even if it were possible for MS to buy then out, it would be morally, socially, and strategically reprehensible! Instead, these guys need to go for MS's jugular, and advertising is not the best way to do it. They need to capitalize on what truly makes them different - GFS (Google File System).
They need to expand Gmail to include all user files native on the PC (Gstore?). To do this, they will need to first purchase one or two storage management companies with serious brainshare to augment their already vast storage capabilities. Offer 20GB of FREE file storage. Users will depend less and less on their desktop as a tool for storing files and data. Kick Microsoft straight and hard in the balls by being the first to files off of the desktop and on to the network. 5 to 10 years from now, Google could be hosting the world.
Why Google would try to compete with MS on the desktop is beyond me. They have the greatest distributed file system (or "super computer") in commercial use today (see gmail). Challenging MS on the desktop would put to sleep Google's best asset, which COULD be used compete WITH the OS instead of having to DEPEND on it. Google WILL become the next Netscape if they don't leverage the tools they already have. Here's a thought: Google has a complete copy of the internet under their roof; why not build on that vision? 1 GB email is great... why not 20GB of "free" file storage? Use their massive distributed capabilities to get off of the desktop instead of developing new technologies to get on it.