A timely reality check; also see a related xml.com post
Anyone hoping that Google Apps can rival Microsoft’s products in the enterprise marketplace will have pause for thought after reading the astonishing testimony of development manager Sergey Solyanik, who has just gone Back to Microsoft after a stint working at Google.
His blog post starts out innocuously enough with a list of good things at Google that Microsoft ought to emulate as an employer. But when it comes to “So why did I leave?” Solyanik rips into Google’s working practices, in particular criticizing the effects of its business model, which emphasizes free software at the expense of utility. His conclusion is brutal:
“Google as an organization is not geared — culturally — to delivering enterprise class reliability to its user applications.”
Google’s culture ‘not fit’ for enterprise apps | Software as Services | ZDNet.com
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