IBM Confirms: Google Poses NO Enterprise Threat
The Google coopetition juggernaut continues: On the heels of IBM announcing its intention to take its rightful seat at the Office Productivity table with the new and improved Lotus Symphony, Big Blue is teaming with Mountain View to finance cloud computing data centers for research use by universities.
Strange strategic bedfellows? Stranger still, the IBM disclaimer by Samuel Palmisano, CEO, noting Google is mainly a consumer company, while IBM concentrates on the corporate market:
We’re more complementary than anything else, we don’t really collide in the marketplace.
REALLY? Google is NOT an enterprise threat to IBM, or anyone else?
That will be news to Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s Enterprise Search team and to GOOG shareholders promised a Google now powered by “Search, Ads & APPS”!
Did Palmisano not hear just last week that his new partner, Schmidt, has upped the Google Apps enterprise ante, thanks to $625 million Postini? Of course he did, IBM just doesn’t take Google seriously as an enterprise level threat.
RIGHTLY SO, as I myself underscored last week as well in Google Chokes With Postini: Billion Dollar Office Apps Giveaway.
Palisamo is also apparently underwhelmed by the less than shock and awe Cap Gemini resale deal with Google Apps, and so am I. SEE: Office 2.0: Zoho and Google Apps FAIL to Dazzle
AND , I UNDERSCORE HOW GOOGLE IS NOT MAKING HAY IN ENTERPRISE SEARCH IN
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