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Given that Google might acquire your company, why would you want to provide it with 100% of your sales, support and bug tracking information?
by jpdoctor 15y ago
Given that Google might acquire your company, why would you want to provide it with 100% of your sales, support and bug tracking information?
- andrewljohnson 15y agoGoogle's terms of use prevent them from having humans read your data.
- jpdoctor 15y ago> Google's terms of use prevent them from having humans read your data. Given the choice of 1. spending a few zillion dollars on a lemon of a startup and 2. violating terms-of-use behind your back do people really believe 1. over 2. is the most likely outcome?
- sanswork 15y agoThey would have to play their hand at behind the scenes knowledge of your actual figures somewhat openly for this to work. That would be disastrous for them.
- alttab 15y agoI was looking for a similar comment. Not just from an acquisition standpoint, but having all that information right where Google can look at it doesn't sound smart just from a common-sense standpoint. "What could possibly go wrong?"
- Nitramp 15y ago100% of your sales, support, and bug tracking information will be reflected in the email inbox of your employees. If you're not hosting your own email servers, all that information is available to some 3rd party. These companies have contracts in place preventing them from abusing the potential information they can gain, and they usually have a lot more to loose from violating it than what they could gain from cheating like this.
- jpdoctor 15y ago> and they usually have a lot more to loose from violating it than what they could gain from cheating like this. No they don't. That's the problem. Apparently there are not a lot of folks here who have spent time on the other side of the acquisition table: They're confusing a gentlemenly game where people play by the rules with a streetfight.