Why We Compete with Google

Re:Why We Compete with Google by shabda on Tuesday August 19, 2008 @12:37AM (#280032)

(The you read the Innovators Dilemma? They argue this point very well..) The logic goes something like this, as companies grow, they tend to move from lower profit margin businesses to higher profit margin businesses. Each company needs a specific profit margin over their overhead costs to justify investment of resources. Google with find it hard to invest in lower margin Office Suite business.

> 2. I'm just going to assume, since the poster's name is Sridhar, that he actually just doesn't speak English ...

Thats generally a wrong assumption, I have lived in India all my life, and >70% of my communication is in English. I am pretty sure everyone at Zoho uses English at Office

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Re:Why We Compete with Google by mattmaroon on Tuesday August 19, 2008 @01:44AM (#280087)

Wow, way to cut my sentence off and attack it. How does this get voted up? Read PG's article about how to argue.

Also, Office is an incredibly high-margin business. Google isn't moving into it because they don't expect it to return cash if it succeeds.

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Re:Why We Compete with Google by bluishgreen on Tuesday August 19, 2008 @02:31AM (#280134)

"Huh? I'm just going to assume, since the poster's name is Sridhar..."

I stopped reading after this, since I understand that you cant complete such a sentence into something which will make any sense. Yes, we can all use a reading/re-reading of PGs article on how to make/present an argument.

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Re:Why We Compete with Google by mattmaroon on Tuesday August 19, 2008 @07:56PM (#281004)

Well, perhaps that came off differently than I meant it. His article came across as rambling and incoherent, and I was saying that may be due to English not being his primary language rather than a poor thought process. It's very hard to argue in a second tongue. Much harder than simply conversing.

Nonetheless, I'm appalled that someone can cut my sentence in half, argue with an entirely different statement than the one I made, and get voted up that far.

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Re:Why We Compete with Google by sutro on Wednesday August 20, 2008 @04:59AM (#281321)

So you're appalled when someone excerpts your own words in a threaded discussion, with the full quotation available above the excerpt, but you're fine with putting quotation marks around completely bogus "loose translations" of what other people say so you can argue against straw men instead of their actual statements? To quote you, if I may, "that is the worst logic I've ever seen."

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