Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO, envisions that 90 percent of today's computing tasks can be moved online. High-end graphics processing is an example of a computing task probably not well suited to online use.
Google execs also argue that more and more computing tasks are unrelated to productivity suites. "If you're creating a complex document like an annual report, you want Word, and if you're making a sophisticated financial model, you want Excel. That's what the Microsoft products are great at. But less and less work is like that," said Google's Dave Girouard.
For now, 2.000 companies start to use Google Apps every day (most try the free version), Google Docs had 1.6 million U.S. users last month, according to Compete.com, while Gmail doubled its U.S. users to 20.1 million in November, according to comScore.
Monday, December 17, 2007
90% of Software Can be Delivered Online
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
-
We have all repeatedly seen comparisons of equity value of hyperscale app providers compared to the value of connectivity providers, which s...
-
It really is surprising how often a Pareto distribution--the “80/20 rule--appears in business life, or in life, generally. Basically, the...
-
Is there a relationship between screen size and data consumption? One might think the answer clearly is “yes,” based on the difference bet...
No comments:
Post a Comment