The IBM-Google Connection

On August 12, 1981, IBM introduced its new revolution in a box, the "Personal Computer" complete with a brand new operating system from Microsoft and a 16-bit computer operating system called MS-DOS 1.0. In 1980, IBM first approached Bill Gates and Microsoft to discuss the state of home computers and Microsoft products. Gates gave IBM a few ideas on what would make a great home computer, among them to have Basic written into the ROM chip. Microsoft had already produced several versions of Basic for different computer system beginning with the Altair, so Gates was more than happy to write a version for IBM... Microsoft bought the rights to QDOS for $50,000, keeping the IBM deal a secret from Seattle Computer Products. Gates then talked IBM into letting Microsoft retain the rights to market MS DOS separate from the IBM PC project. Gates proceeded to make a fortune from the licensing of MS-DOS. - The History of the MS-DOS Operating Systems, Microsoft

The IBM-Google Connection

August 10, 2010

blushimages.com - Google CEO Eric Schmidt joins hands with IBM CEO Sam Palmisano.

Schmidt gave IBM lots of credit for pioneering many of the technologies that underlie today’s computing architectures. He noted that IBM, which has about 87 years on Google, has figured out that the underlying platform is a server and Web services.

As more companies look for Web-based tools, mashups, and standard applications, such as word processors, Google stands to benefit.

“IBM is one of the key planks of our strategy–otherwise we couldn’t reach enterprise customers,” Schmidt said.

Currently, Salesforce.com is selling Google Apps as an integrated part of its platform. It’s not far-fetched to think that Google would seek out IBM’s help with its business partners to spread the Google word in the enterprise.

IBM is taking some of the learnings from the project and plans to operate a cloud that will allow partners to house their Web-based applications and sell them to customers, Palmisano said.

“It is the first time we have taken something from the consumer arena and applied it to the enterprise,” he said.

“Cloud computing is the story of our lifetime,” Schmidt said. “Eventually all devices will be on the network.”

Both IBM and Google, and a host of competitors, have the same idea, which was actually first promoted by Sun with its “the network is the computer” slogan. Google figured out how to monetize the fruits of the pages its massively parallel servers manage.

Schmidt said that over time there won’t be much differentiation between consumer and enterprise architectures. The major difference is that enterprise customers will pay for software and services, with required security and other features, and consumers won’t.

Google and IBM have more in common than a shared view of the world and an academic research project. It turns out that Google outsources its accounting to IBM and that Schmidt considers IBM’s sales organization important to Google’s enterprise software efforts.

IBM wants to provide the infrastructure and support services to the planet, and Google wants to provide the world’s information, and some applications, on its platform.

“The two companies are great and have lots of innovation in their gene pool,” Palmisano said. “There isn’t a lot of overlap in the strategies.” Both are committed to open standards and an open Internet, and they are both going in the same direction, he added.

Google’s YouTube captures 10 hours of video every 60 seconds, and IBM might like that business if it could figure out how to make money at it. But eventually, IBM, Microsoft, Sun, Google, and other big players will look more similar in their technical architectures and business models.

While IBM isn’t selling directly for Google in the enterprise, IBM’s software division and business partners are integrating Google applications and widgets into custom software solutions based on IBM’s development framework. The “business context” is the secret of the Google and IBM collaboration, Schmidt said. Embedding Google Gadgets in business applications, that can work on any device, is a common theme for both Google and IBM.

LOS ANGELES–Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt gave a speech and chatted with IBM’s CEO Sam Palmisano onstage Thursday at IBM’s Business Partner Leadership Conference here. The two talked up their relationship, which primarily involves a joint research project. In October, Google and IBM announced a cloud computing initiative, based on Google’s expertise in distributed, parallel computing and IBM’s industrial enterprise management technologies, for public use by universities.

Google: Front for the CIA, NSA and Military Industrial Complex

April 16, 2010

PrisonPlanet.com - ...Google, a company that was founded by CIA seed money and is nothing less than a front for the CIA, the NSA and the military-industrial complex, is already facing nine lawsuits in the United States alone and inquiries in 38 states for illegally collecting people’s emails, web surfing history, and other information from private wi-fi networks during its Street View photographing operations. The company also faces criminal charges in countries like Germany, Spain and Australia for violating basic privacy laws.

Google is now working directly with the CIA to create a leviathan database of human activity that purports to be able to “predict the future” by scouring Twitter accounts, blogs and websites for real time information.

It’s hardly surprising that the criminal, vampiric government is working with a company headed up by a CEO who thinks that privacy doesn’t matter, and a company that has already broken innumerable privacy laws in its pursuit to achieve Big Brother super-status.

Recall this ultra-creepy Pennsylvania Department of Revenue commercial which received a massive backlash after it depicted authorities using sophisticated aerial imaging technology to locate people who supposedly owed the state back taxes. The voice-over ominously announces, “Because Tom, we do know who you are,” as the shot zooms in on a crystal clear image of a house.

In reality of course, the biggest thieves and criminals are the government bureaucrats themselves, who have conspired to steal trillions of dollars from Americans that is being sent to offshore banks as citizens are forced to pick up the tab through higher taxes, soaring living costs, and crippling austerity measures.

The ad tells us everything we need to know about the motivation behind government using aerial imagery to spy on Americans – it’s about oppression, intimidation, looting, and Big Brother on steroids – and goes way beyond anything even George Orwell warned about in his book 1984.