Monday, November 07, 2005

3 Players, 2 Visions and 1 Destination

3 Players
Microsoft, Sun, Google
2 Visions
Microsoft – A Desktop (Computer) in every home.
Sun Microsystems – Network is the Computer
Microsoft’s vision of ‘A Desktop in every home’ has helped the spread of internet and its economy which is considered around $100 billion dollars (The Search by John Battelle). This indirectly helped to realize the vision of Sun Microsystems ‘Network is the computer’. Sun Microsystem's Java platform, fast tracked the internet software development (Web site / portal development using Java technologies like servlets, enterprise java beans etc) which helped the normal users to get more value out of internet and letting it being part of their daily life.
Most of the computing for the common person revolves around the web browser and it became the interface to giant network (or should we say the Computer) called internet.

What did Google do over here?
To find out more about this, read more in my new blog Java and Technology / 3 Players, 2 Visions and 1 Destination

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

Brilliant for shareholders and technology enthusiasts - google might also be the monopoly that Microsoft was for pc !
the pain that this monopoly has caused to business because of the "weak" operating system in terms of security is well known (and I am sure feared by the people responsible for securing corporate networks).
Soon we will start talking about splitting google - just like people did to MS !!!
But let's see ... it's going to be interesting watching GOOGLE;
interesting article:
http://businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2005/tc20051115_111104.htm
Rishi