Reading SiliconBeat’s recap of why Google walked away from buying Olive Software, an off-line to XML comversion company, I noticed a juicy bit of speculation.
Is Google turning into a Microsoft? Checking out the goods, and then going back and building it themselves? Or hiring away the better employees? Here’s what one person said: “Google learned a LOT about Olive… everything.”
If Google ends-up building the technology themselves (or hiring key Olive employees) would you see this as shady or brilliance on Google’s part?
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dj Says:
May 10th, 2006 at 11:58 pm
Brilliant? No, Shady? Definitely. Seriously, thats just bad karma, its not like they don’t have a jillion dollars and a “do no evil” motto. This should send the startups over to Yahoo’s doorsteps.