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The crazy part about this is that in the meeting of setting targets one option that came up was folding the cloud unit entirely. And this was already after bill
by raiyu 7y ago
The crazy part about this is that in the meeting of setting targets one option that came up was folding the cloud unit entirely. And this was already after billions invested.
I don't really believe that they will leave the cloud wars, but still goes to show you the scale and profitability of their ad business and how central it is that even after billions of invested they can still decide to shutter something.
Doesn't exactly instill confidence in your customers to trust you for the service you provide.
- scarface74 7y agoWhy not abandon a project that isn’t successful just because you invested billions? Doing the opposite is the definition of the “sunk cost fallacy”.
- macintux 7y agoSometimes it's worth running a project at a loss in exchange for other benefits, such as enterprises' trust that you will be a good product steward. If they kill GCP, what CTO in their right mind would ever choose Google for a mission critical service?
- scarface74 7y agoHas Google ever shown to be good product stewards or to know how to engender the trust of their customers?
- somebodythere 7y agoIs #3 in a massive-scale business like enterprise cloud considered unsuccessful?
- scarface74 7y agoAll cloud computing put together is less than 10% of total enterprise computings. Again are they profitable? If the article is to be believed, there own management doesn’t think so and as I posted below, they are distant third at less than 5%.