The CEO of online office Google Docs competitor Zoho, Sridhar Vembu, regularly sends out interesting thoughts from the Zoho blog for others to republish. Below is a partial (partly snipped) reposting of his latest musing; you can find the full text (titled "IBM, Microsoft & Google Eras of Computing") from May 2nd over there.
By now it is conventional wisdom to say that there was an IBM Era of computing, then a Microsoft Era, and now we are in the Google Era. In this post, I will explain why Microsoft was not the "next IBM" and why Google is not the "next Microsoft" -- there are significant qualitative differences among them, quite apart from their status as the dominan ...
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