I'm sorry, but does anyone else think this graph is nuts? I'm hypnotized by it. It would be interesting to overlay another graph for the same period that showed how many companies were betting on Microsoft for planned enterprise IT investments. Wonder what that would look like. Up? Down? That said, if John Battelle's 2008 predictions come true, perhaps this chart is very different for both companies next year.
Sam Lawrence
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in response to DOUGman:
Hey, thanks for the comment Doug. We appreciate your support.
Aaron Johnson
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not coincidentally, Google might eventually have to take the same road Microsoft did to get where they are:
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/12/google_knol_trading_own_account.html
As Google's growth slows, as inevitably it will, it will need to consume more and more of the web ecosystem, trading against its former suppliers, rather than distributing attention to them. We already take for granted that common searches, such as for weather or stock prices, are satisfied directly on the search screen. Where does that process stop?
Cheers,
AJ
WOW....what effectively took M$ eight years, Google did in under three years. Impressive, no wonder Google's stocks are 685.19 vs M$ hovering at approximately 32 share.
Thanks for sharing, BTW you Guys ROCK. I love OpenFire/Spark and ClearSpace.
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