Source: News.com
[Via Rajesh Jain] I always have an inclination towards Networks, High Performance computing and many innovative technologies. This article has really impressed me and made me rethink of Internet and its future
Google is the first challenger in memory with the wherewithal to put major hurt on Microsoft. Last week, Google added another $4.1 billion to its coffers with a secondary offering (on top of the $1.67 billion it raised during its IPO). And considering that it accounts for more than half the search market, Google can bankroll experiments with any number of new services.
Along the way, there were pretenders to the throne, like Novell and Netscape--and we all know how they ended up. But Google won't depart so quietly into the night. When Ballmer looks in the mirror, he sees Eric Schmidt's reflection. Google has become the living embodiment of the much-ballyhooed concept of software as a service, with the constant flow of new products onto its Web page as beta projects.
Google is the first challenger in memory with the wherewithal to put major hurt on Microsoft. Last week, Google added another $4.1 billion to its coffers with a secondary offering (on top of the $1.67 billion it raised during its IPO). And considering that it accounts for more than half the search market, Google can bankroll experiments with any number of new services.
Along the way, there were pretenders to the throne, like Novell and Netscape--and we all know how they ended up. But Google won't depart so quietly into the night. When Ballmer looks in the mirror, he sees Eric Schmidt's reflection. Google has become the living embodiment of the much-ballyhooed concept of software as a service, with the constant flow of new products onto its Web page as beta projects.
Google's chances also depend on the PC losing its primacy. Oracle's Larry Ellison argued as much when he was out pushing his idea of a network computer. So did Sun Microsystems' Scott McNealy with his mantra that "the network is the computer." I am very sure Google is going to prove it in the very near future.
The Internet has scrambled old assumptions by becoming the new platform. How long before everything resides in the "Internet cloud" rather than terrestrial PCs and servers? Maybe not this year or next--but five years hence isn't a stretch.
Category:Networks,Google
The Internet has scrambled old assumptions by becoming the new platform. How long before everything resides in the "Internet cloud" rather than terrestrial PCs and servers? Maybe not this year or next--but five years hence isn't a stretch.
At the same time, there are now lots of alternative ways to access the Web besides a Windows-based PC. That spells trouble for Microsoft's monopoly franchise, which depends on maintaining the status quo.
Try imagining a future where developers will write to Web platforms without thinking about an individual computer or operating system. That once was Netscape's dream. If this does come to pass, Google could build an ecosystem around itself in much the same way Microsoft did with Windows. If Microsoft's latest moves can't clear out its corporate arteries, the future could be all Google, all the time.
An excellent writeup, my special thanks to Rajesh, for pointing this out. Web as a real time working system, has a promisingly wonderfull way ahead, where mobile phones could act as mini computers, which provides functionality in par with today PC's, with in-built Wi-Fi support, could replace the old desktop PC's at a very very resonable cost. Google is coping up with the next generation state of art technology, which could use its existing fibre optic connections, to offer thin-client like computing platform.Category:Networks,Google
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