Cybernetics

This article seemed to have it all said!

http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/05/upgrade-here.html

Microsoft and google have been thinking for a long time. And this shows the Microsoft strategy as well as Google’s.

The success of microsoft in the 90s and noughties, is highly based on they software.

You get yourself a computer and a few servers, and we will provide you with good software. If you cannot get yourself the hardware.. then they cannot be blamed.

This has allowed very successfull decades of good Microsoft software.

But now everyone has a computer, and access to a fast internet connection, the issue now to not have to worry about those old servers any more.

Let them handle the hardware “in the clouds”, we don’t need them anymore. And that seems to be the way Microsoft and Google we be heading.

I had the occasion yesterday to help out someone with their website.

Which they created with google sites: http://sites.google.com

I was at first very impressed, although I have know about this website for a long time, I hadn’t had the occasion to actually test it, with a live site.

Google websites are as always very well done, and documented, and easy to use. But at the heart of the website, there really wasn’t much to the site. It was in fact just an advanced online editor. And by using online editor, it would probably be pretty quick to reproduce an alternative to this site.

It was also very limited in what it was allowing users to do, there seemed to be no way of adding javascript, a different web statistics tool, or any type of dyna;ics.

But the simplisity of it was impressive, but this showed that there was most probably place for an alternative and a more advanced tool once again.

I the same way as I could see the charts.google.com tool, really interesting and a fun basis for a more advanced statitics tool for developers.

The 3rd website, which could also have made progress is definitly googlemaps, since the API, requires so much tweeking to get anything to work, but once again, I am sure that this team is actually already working on making progress on this.