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This is sensationalist. Reading the article, it seems like he's going to invest much more in an aggressive sales team, which they desperately need. Google Clou
by stingraycharles 8y ago
This is sensationalist. Reading the article, it seems like he's going to invest much more in an aggressive sales team, which they desperately need.
Google Cloud sucks at enterprise sales. By all objective measures, Oracle absolutely owns this part. It's not as black and white as they need to become Oracle in order to learn some things from them.
As someone who consults with a lot of enterprises and helps them with their cloud architecture, I can see first hand that the market share of Google Cloud there is about 0. It's only internal, toy projects and nothing critical, because they already have AWS and Azure and that's that.
Even with all their technological excellence, it doesn't matter. That strategy failed, and they're losing.
I'm willing to wait and see how a sales-centric strategy works out.
- rapsey 8y agoIt has no chance of working because it goes against their culture completely.
- billfruit 8y agoWell it is not exactly Enterprise, but Snap has a $2 billion contract for App Engine, so Google do have large clients on their cloud platform.
- chris_wot 8y agoAfter reading this article, can you really blame people for not going with AppEngine? https://hackernoon.com/why-and-how-we-left-app-engine-after-it-almost-destroyed-us-40ac2fc0b1a8 https://hackernoon.com/why-and-how-we-left-app-engine-after-...
- _the_inflator 8y agoI agree with you. Google needs to learn the good parts from Oracle. Enterprise adoption != developer adoption. That's why Google desperately needs a strong sales team.
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