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google will emerge
I have one client I call "the pulse," you can glean what the majority of end users are thinking/doing by observing this fellow in action. He puts the "power" in "power end user," even offices with 20 people parked in front of a computer all day don't accomplish as much as this fellow does with his 3 boxes in his home office.
He runs a number of web sites, including one of the more respected 'conservative' opinion sites, several political action organizations and a couple of profitable operations on the side. I don't imagine this fellow ever sleeps.
Well, he's been all over me about google apps and android.
I set him up with one Linux machine to have email and web browsers open all the time, but he hasn't used it much. But he heard some news report the other day about how android is a Linux base, and I've been flooded with email from him since. They're all laced with "[expletive] microsoft!" and "I'll be damned..." (if I'm going to pay for windows 7)
He even said "I'm willing to buy another computer" in order to set up android and google apps, I almost fell off my chair. The word "cheapskate" precedes "power end user" in any sentence describing the guy.
Potent portends, I think a lot of folks are going to have a good look at google once their plan gels and the products have been out and tested sufficiently. A matter of time, and I think google is pacing themselves very wisely.
Not that microsoft is going to evaporate any time soon, but I do think there will be a more competitive future, something I would not have opined just 2 years ago.
As for canonical, someone in marketing has been dropping the ball over ther big time.
I've had a number of clients come to me with netbooks they bought not knowing the OS was ubuntu, and they didn't particularly care, or notice, until something went wrong.
And by wrong, how about none of them came preloaded with any flash capability. That is plain moron thinking.
A typical call came in just last week, a fellow had gotten one of these for his mother to play games at pogo dot com. Out of the box it was no go @ pogo. I tried talking him through it on the phone, and surprisingly he had gotten pretty far into the guts of the thing, by rights he should have been able to install flash.
He was all over synaptic, and was doing everything correctly (on the command line no less!) but apparently the thing had not come with any repositories preconfigured. After we confirmed that, I told him someone would need to lay hands on the thing. (he lives 300+ miles away)
A local fellow with one of these things did have repositories set up out of the box and it was a simple matter to get flash going. BUT, one day he saw a message about updates, so he ok'd them. A new kernel came on board and he was prompted to reboot.
On restart the machine complained that the root (/) was full. I checked, it was. We had to uninstall the older kernel, and then it was still over 95% full.
The way canonical has allowed ubuntu to go out into the wild hanging on a thread like this is unfortunate. I guess the issue is the cost of solid state storage, but to put your name on an almost guaranteed disaster is plain stupid.
Google is playing the tortoise to canonical's hare. Canonical is pushing an OS out the door, ironically hoping nobody notices. Google is dangling a concept out there, and generating a buzz that will eventually result in demand.
The people who will migrate to google will know exactly what they are getting into, and it won't matter.
Give them a couple of years and google apps will be as common as any ms office suite.
He runs a number of web sites, including one of the more respected 'conservative' opinion sites, several political action organizations and a couple of profitable operations on the side. I don't imagine this fellow ever sleeps.
Well, he's been all over me about google apps and android.
I set him up with one Linux machine to have email and web browsers open all the time, but he hasn't used it much. But he heard some news report the other day about how android is a Linux base, and I've been flooded with email from him since. They're all laced with "[expletive] microsoft!" and "I'll be damned..." (if I'm going to pay for windows 7)
He even said "I'm willing to buy another computer" in order to set up android and google apps, I almost fell off my chair. The word "cheapskate" precedes "power end user" in any sentence describing the guy.
Potent portends, I think a lot of folks are going to have a good look at google once their plan gels and the products have been out and tested sufficiently. A matter of time, and I think google is pacing themselves very wisely.
Not that microsoft is going to evaporate any time soon, but I do think there will be a more competitive future, something I would not have opined just 2 years ago.
As for canonical, someone in marketing has been dropping the ball over ther big time.
I've had a number of clients come to me with netbooks they bought not knowing the OS was ubuntu, and they didn't particularly care, or notice, until something went wrong.
And by wrong, how about none of them came preloaded with any flash capability. That is plain moron thinking.
A typical call came in just last week, a fellow had gotten one of these for his mother to play games at pogo dot com. Out of the box it was no go @ pogo. I tried talking him through it on the phone, and surprisingly he had gotten pretty far into the guts of the thing, by rights he should have been able to install flash.
He was all over synaptic, and was doing everything correctly (on the command line no less!) but apparently the thing had not come with any repositories preconfigured. After we confirmed that, I told him someone would need to lay hands on the thing. (he lives 300+ miles away)
A local fellow with one of these things did have repositories set up out of the box and it was a simple matter to get flash going. BUT, one day he saw a message about updates, so he ok'd them. A new kernel came on board and he was prompted to reboot.
On restart the machine complained that the root (/) was full. I checked, it was. We had to uninstall the older kernel, and then it was still over 95% full.
The way canonical has allowed ubuntu to go out into the wild hanging on a thread like this is unfortunate. I guess the issue is the cost of solid state storage, but to put your name on an almost guaranteed disaster is plain stupid.
Google is playing the tortoise to canonical's hare. Canonical is pushing an OS out the door, ironically hoping nobody notices. Google is dangling a concept out there, and generating a buzz that will eventually result in demand.
The people who will migrate to google will know exactly what they are getting into, and it won't matter.
Give them a couple of years and google apps will be as common as any ms office suite.
Posted by pgit
27th Oct 2009
