时势造英雄
看到Skrentablog对IT产业龙头做出了精辟的分析。
But it shouldn’t be surprising that huge successful companies can’t make the leap into owning a completely new and different market. New markets bring with them new rules, and require different skills to win. Microsoft has the same shot as any well-funded venture at knocking off Google’s crown. But they don’t get a special pass just because they make a lot of money selling Word and Excel and have their logo on keyboards.
—— Skrentablog: Winner-Take-All: Google and the Third Age of Computing
很久以前，当我还没拥有自己电脑的时代，我依然还能看到几台IBM电脑的存在。后来我的第一台电脑系统是Windows 95。那时候Win 95可以说是最先进的了。现在每个人可以上网了，而掌控网络时代的就是Google。这么多年来，我觉得Yahoo没有把握好良机，虽然Yahoo本身有很多良好的产品服务，可是他们就是不懂得推广。就拿Yahoo Auction来说，他们各方面就是胜过eBay，可是到后来就是eBay在网络拍卖市场得到胜利(在台湾是Yahoo Auction胜）。
IBM风行了30年，Microsoft是15年，那么如此推算，Google是不是只会到2008年呢？
