Comments on: On Google and constraints: DHH agrees (concisely) http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2006/02/15/on-google-and-constraints-dhh-agrees-concisely/ An industry analyst blog looking at software ecosystems and convergence Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:53:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: /pd http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2006/02/15/on-google-and-constraints-dhh-agrees-concisely/#comment-1154 /pd Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:53:40 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/wp/?p=505#comment-1154 " Making all information searching for the whole world." - I beg to differ, Results are being pulled for a) In China b) Cartoon of Mahmood in the US/EU :)- c) The List goes on. "Abu Gharib" Pictures (indexed in getty but not in GoogsImages) ..now go figure..!! ” Making all information searching for the whole world.” -

I beg to differ, Results are being pulled for
a) In China
b) Cartoon of Mahmood in the US/EU :)-
c) The List goes on. “Abu Gharib” Pictures (indexed in getty but not in GoogsImages)

..now go figure..!!

]]> By: vinnie mirchandani http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2006/02/15/on-google-and-constraints-dhh-agrees-concisely/#comment-1153 vinnie mirchandani Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:59:54 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/wp/?p=505#comment-1153 Efficiency is good. Innovation is just as good. Efficient Innovation is fantastic. But let's look at it from the user/consumer POV. From an individual user’s point of view one constraint is attention and Google rightly or wrongly with search, Earth gets credit for having saved us tons of time. For enterprise it is TCO. If you as a vendor are not empathetic to a customer’s budget (how much your integration partners make if you are SAP, how much pain your next release causes if you are Oracle etc) it does not really matter how efficient or innovative your own shop is. Also when comparing shops, you have to compare Google to bigger players. Microsoft spends annually $ 6 b in R&D, IBM almost $ 2 b. Are they really innovating or just tweaking? Those are unconstrained budgets any CTO would love to have or if you ask buyers, money which should come back to them in lowered prices. I do not hear that complaint about Google - yet. Efficiency is good. Innovation is just as good. Efficient Innovation is fantastic. But let’s look at it from the user/consumer POV. From an individual user’s point of view one constraint is attention and Google rightly or wrongly with search, Earth gets credit for having saved us tons of time. For enterprise it is TCO. If you as a vendor are not empathetic to a customer’s budget (how much your integration partners make if you are SAP, how much pain your next release causes if you are Oracle etc) it does not really matter how efficient or innovative your own shop is. Also when comparing shops, you have to compare Google to bigger players. Microsoft spends annually $ 6 b in R&D, IBM almost $ 2 b. Are they really innovating or just tweaking? Those are unconstrained budgets any CTO would love to have or if you ask buyers, money which should come back to them in lowered prices. I do not hear that complaint about Google - yet.

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