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Is it even remotely possible that Google would sell discontinued products to other entities, e.g. raise money to buy Wave as a separate company or something lik
by xkcd-sucks 6y ago
Is it even remotely possible that Google would sell discontinued products to other entities, e.g. raise money to buy Wave as a separate company or something like that?
- jordanthoms 6y agoGoogle products are generally dependent on a whole lot of services which only exist within Google, so it'd probably have to be rebuilt after a sale.
- dmoy 6y agoI would guess the monorepo makes this very difficult to do
- ithkuil 6y agoNot as long as products are built on top of proprietary internal SDKs such as google3, borg etc. Google started to open source some of the internal projects (e.g. bazel), which, among other things, would make it easier to just donate / spin off a project they are no longer interested supporting.
- alasdair_ 6y agoI worked at a Google spinoff a few years ago. It took a lot of work to move everything from internal Google infrastructure to external (Google Cloud) and it probably took a full year after the official date of us leaving Google to have everything fully migrated - there were lots of small things like seldom used config files or occasional scripts that still relied on Google’s internal stuff.
- ponker 6y agoAlso a failed product from Google will be worth no more than $1 billion which is hard to get the Google C-suite excited about.