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In general they have been pretty aloof at product marketing and development. Microsoft came in with a weaker product early on and has really been cleaning up w

by kev009 9y ago

In general they have been pretty aloof at product marketing and development. Microsoft came in with a weaker product early on and has really been cleaning up with Azure going head to head with Amazon and GCE. G as a whole has always been pretty much the opposite of Apple in terms of fit and finish, and in the past it was no mongo in terms of dev swoon. But I agree with cookiecaper, they have somehow cracked the code for mongo level of installing meme based software architecture on the masses. I would _love_ to understand how that works, for selfish entrepreneurial reasons :)

jacques_chester 9y ago
I agree that Google is coming from behind in enterprise sales. AWS have the long headstart and Microsoft have an existing, massive sales org. Cloud computing fits almost none of their DNA. It requires intensive sales rather than automation. It's a volume business with thin margins (rather than a network-effect business with fat margins). But it's also a business in which they have the best technology out of the three and the first plausible alternative revenue stream they've ever found. I don't think they are going to stop elbowing their way into this, and neither are Microsoft.
- peterwwillis 9y ago
  The difference is, Google is the only company that is both trying to sell cloud services, and giving their product away to their competitors. The company I work for uses multiple cloud providers, but does not use GCE. They don't even think about it. I think the reason is a lack of confidence, along with other business and technical reasons. Google just isn't a serious company when it comes to supporting large businesses. Like it or not, that old adage about never getting fired for buying IBM is still true.
  - jacques_chester 9y ago
    Kubernetes isn't the product, though. GCP is. Google doesn't care what software you're running, as long as you run it with them.

by kev009 9y ago

jacques_chester 9y ago

I agree that Google is coming from behind in enterprise sales. AWS have the long headstart and Microsoft have an existing, massive sales org. Cloud computing fits almost none of their DNA. It requires intensive sales rather than automation. It's a volume business with thin margins (rather than a network-effect business with fat margins). But it's also a business in which they have the best technology out of the three and the first plausible alternative revenue stream they've ever found. I don't think they are going to stop elbowing their way into this, and neither are Microsoft.

peterwwillis 9y ago
The difference is, Google is the only company that is both trying to sell cloud services, and giving their product away to their competitors. The company I work for uses multiple cloud providers, but does not use GCE. They don't even think about it. I think the reason is a lack of confidence, along with other business and technical reasons. Google just isn't a serious company when it comes to supporting large businesses. Like it or not, that old adage about never getting fired for buying IBM is still true.
- jacques_chester 9y ago
  Kubernetes isn't the product, though. GCP is. Google doesn't care what software you're running, as long as you run it with them.