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I sold my ORCL a couple years ago (had held it for 20 years) for just that reason. A company whose customers use their product because they have to rather than
by skookumchuck 8y ago
I sold my ORCL a couple years ago (had held it for 20 years) for just that reason. A company whose customers use their product because they have to rather than because they want to is doomed.
The same for Novell stock back in the day.
- skookumchuck 8y agoThe last straw for me was when I read they were suing their customers.
- microdrum 8y agoSo Google is doomed? (I think it is.)
- mamurphy 8y agoGoogle's primary service is selling search ads that consumers view, primarily via search. Consumers have almost no lock in, and consistently choose Google search over Bing, etc. Google is not at all like Oracle in this case.
- microdrum 8y agoGoogle's business is selling ads to companies and agencies (which hate Google) and selling ad display tech to websites and publishers (which hate Google). They buy companies (Urchin, Doubleclick), make them free, destroy competition, introduce pricing. Pretty identical to the bad guys in tech history.
- majewsky 8y agoEven if that's true, it doesn't matter. Consumers are using Google, so there is not really a free market for search ads from thee marketers' perspective.
- Swenrekcah 8y agoI don’t like google but I use a lot of their products and of course am involuntarily tracked by them all over. I can hate them all I want, but I’m not their customer. So they have that going for them...