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Well, one of the reasons for acquiring companies, is the employees.
Sometimes that is that main reason for buying these companies. But, being able to read and write both MS Office and ODF formats is not exactly simple. By buying a company like this, if Google can get to market even 6 months faster, with a better product, that could mean hundreds of millions in extra revenues, and more market share in the end. Think time to market and employees.

The problem for Microsoft, they can buy these little companies, but the key employees are much more likely to quit. The idea of working for Google is about 100x more atractive than it is for Microsoft.
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The big difference  SQLServer | 03/13/06
Don't forget, MS will be going all out to make at least a small percentage  DonnieBoy | 03/13/06
And, Googles biggest problem is figuring out how to keep MS from leveraging  DonnieBoy | 03/13/06
What about the leverage it gives other countries?  April May | 03/13/06
Here in the US, we compete fair and square. No special treatment.  DonnieBoy | 03/13/06
get over MS already  April May | 03/13/06
And MS better get over the past and prepare for the future.  DonnieBoy | 03/13/06
As was Unix  April May | 03/14/06
dont listen to DonnieBoy as he gives,  John Zern | 03/14/06
"Free and Open Standards"  John Zern | 03/14/06
No, here's what it really highlights...  techboy_z | 03/13/06
Well, one of the reasons for acquiring companies, is the employees.  DonnieBoy | 03/13/06
And you know they are "more likely to quit"  John Zern | 03/14/06
Web 2.0?  CobraA1 | 03/13/06
Web 2 is the interactive web where web applications are interactive enough  DonnieBoy | 03/13/06
Terminology  CobraA1 | 03/14/06
Public Web 2.0 Company  iKarma | 03/13/06
Keep spinning  TonyMcS | 03/13/06
Everybody said the same thing about electricity a long time ago.  DonnieBoy | 03/13/06
Please tell this to Penelec!!!  April May | 03/14/06
AJAX  TonyMcS | 03/13/06
Yes, we need a better way to do it than with AJAX. MS is working on that as  DonnieBoy | 03/13/06
It's called Atlas..  April May | 03/14/06
Uh... [text inside]  BlazeEagle | 03/13/06
Again, some of the same arguments against buying electricity from a  DonnieBoy | 03/13/06
Bad analogy anyway.  April May | 03/14/06
Think of this: Web applications that can cache themselves for ofline use.  DonnieBoy | 03/13/06
yup  CobraA1 | 03/14/06
MS already did  April May | 03/14/06
Once again, Google  John Zern | 03/14/06

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