Can you speak Googlish?
July 9, 2007 by cynthia
Remember that little bit I did on Google buying the world? Well, Google’s world just got a bit bigger….again.
This time they’re buying Postini, an enterprise anti-spam service, for $625M. Interesting New York Times article notes that this is a change in direction, but I don’t think so. If you read their blogs you’ll see that this has been their direction for some time.
Google is pretty carefully acquiring everything Microsoft offers, and then some. One of the big gaps (I thought) was mail service. GoogleMail is fine for private individuals, but nowhere near as robust and feature-rich as most corporations demand, especially when it comes to live communication/presence detection. Microsoft definitely has (or maybe had) the edge there.
In any case, be interesting to see if Microsoft does another tit-for-tat announcement of its acquisitions….
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