6/07/2006

How many engineers did it take to produce Google spreadsheet?

Of all the opinions on launch of Google spreadsheet, I like this one the best.

How many engineers did it take to produce Google spreadsheet? Two? Three? And how many other people did it take to launch? 3 more? What'’s the result of 6 peoples efforts for 6 months?

The press is falling over themselves trying to figure out “"the implications of this announcement". Microsoft has to spend marketing and PR cycles trying to explain to everyone why “"this isn'’t as powerful as Excel"” in the same article which offers a “"balance opinion" from analysts say that it is.

So, for 3 staff-years, Eric Schmidt gets to make Microsoft look like its standing still again and wastes more of their C-Level execs time reacting instead of acting. Pay back is a bitch.

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