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MS also famously has lots and lots of pretty decent re-sellers all around the world, which re-sellers have their own very deep lists of business contacts. Afai

MS also famously has lots and lots of pretty decent re-sellers all around the world, which re-sellers have their own very deep lists of business contacts. Afaik Google has tried to get something out of the enterprise space for a good 5 years now (I'd say), ever since they launched GCP, but it's just not in their DNA to do and especially to maintain business sales.

Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
What enterprise would want to buy products from a company infamously known to cancel products left and right?
bushbaba 4y ago
Google has tried at least since 2002. So it's been 20 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search_Appliance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search_Appliance The Google Search Appliance was a respectable business in of itself. They deprecated it as it wasn't large enough for "Google". It would have been in the ranks of peer unicorn startups given the revenue prior to being killed off.
- giobox 4y ago
  It was also a business for which the writing was very clearly on the wall. How many companies are left that still sell a SaaS/PaaS that requires you to install bespoke on-prem server hardware? I'm guessing its a much smaller list than it was 2002. For crawling/indexing, I can't even imagine convincing IT we need a dedicated appliance today! For the problem GSA solved, its just not needed anymore and subsumed by other google products/services that don't need me to install a rack-device like: https://workspace.google.com/products/cloud-search/ https://workspace.google.com/products/cloud-search/ As someone else has pointed out, GSuite has seen success in the enterprise space, so their enterprise efforts aren't a total write-off. With so many students now on GSuite at their school or colleges and a generation effectively raised on Google Docs... I certainly wouldn't bet against it today.
  - chris11 4y ago
    I can imagine on prem hw being a benefit if a company didn't want a 3rd party to index material. But yeah, I wouldn't want to manage an on-prem setup unless it was necessary.
Melatonic 4y ago
GSuite (now Google Workspace) is actually chugging along nicely and continuously improved. I bet it becomes one of their reliable long term products.
fomine3 4y ago
I also see decent Google Workspace resellers.

Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago

What enterprise would want to buy products from a company infamously known to cancel products left and right?

bushbaba 4y ago

Google has tried at least since 2002. So it's been 20 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search_Appliance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search_Appliance The Google Search Appliance was a respectable business in of itself. They deprecated it as it wasn't large enough for "Google". It would have been in the ranks of peer unicorn startups given the revenue prior to being killed off.

giobox 4y ago
It was also a business for which the writing was very clearly on the wall. How many companies are left that still sell a SaaS/PaaS that requires you to install bespoke on-prem server hardware? I'm guessing its a much smaller list than it was 2002. For crawling/indexing, I can't even imagine convincing IT we need a dedicated appliance today! For the problem GSA solved, its just not needed anymore and subsumed by other google products/services that don't need me to install a rack-device like: https://workspace.google.com/products/cloud-search/ https://workspace.google.com/products/cloud-search/ As someone else has pointed out, GSuite has seen success in the enterprise space, so their enterprise efforts aren't a total write-off. With so many students now on GSuite at their school or colleges and a generation effectively raised on Google Docs... I certainly wouldn't bet against it today.
- chris11 4y ago
  I can imagine on prem hw being a benefit if a company didn't want a 3rd party to index material. But yeah, I wouldn't want to manage an on-prem setup unless it was necessary.

Melatonic 4y ago

GSuite (now Google Workspace) is actually chugging along nicely and continuously improved. I bet it becomes one of their reliable long term products.

fomine3 4y ago

I also see decent Google Workspace resellers.