"Google is going into Financial Services and Healthcare!" he exclaimed over the lengthy conversation. "This is the last stage of the Java project!"
If Stahlman's consensus that Google's foray is indeed into "last stage of the Java project", then the company is going to need massive hardware storage to develop this capability — financial services and healthcare is no small-time show. The logic is obvious when one considers where the highest consumer cost burdens and pending technological disruptions currently lie — with a huge round of technology combining software and hardware, the scenario of practically free financial services and healthcare all delivered to the front door looks suddenly feasable. (E-mail me if you want a copy of the analysis). In a strange twist, such moves are totally consistent with Bernstein's political analysis in his excellent and radical new book The Capitalist Manifesto.
The move is not right for Google as it stands alone, but is perfect when one considers hardware to provide the engine for the G-drive platform. Here is a leaked powerpoint surreptitiously embezzled by Google moments after they realised they had made the mistake of releasing it. I have located a copy. (Again, E-mail me if you want a copy).
A corporate finance executive close to the action who wishes to remain anonymous e-mailed me shortly afterwards with the revelation that the takeover will probably involve 35 shares of Sun for 1 of Google's and that my analysis was "spot on". At this point I am not at liberty to share any more of the e-mail, but by all accounts, Google is Sunny.
GoogleOS may be coming sooner than we think.
*UPDATE Important Disclosure*: i do not have a license to promote stock, and am in no way promoting anything. I do not personally own any shares in Google or Sun Microsystems, neither am I acting in concert with anyone who does. The article is intended as investigative journalism only and is in no way a solicitation to buy or sell securities or even a publicity campaign for certain securities. In other words, just read, blog and comment about it: that is all!
Article comments
1 - Aaman
Inside source to which company? Do you have any personal interest in this transaction?
2 - Mike Siley
"last stage of the Java project" what in the world does that mean.
Ya, they use Java, and C++ and Python and ... What does a programming language have to do with buying Sun?
Sun doesn't own Java. It's owned by the 'community'
(well sorta, not like Open Source but more like a group of companies that have interest in it.. if I remember correctly).
A company like that won't be tied to any one language.
The problems are too complex and need to be solved
with best language for the job.
Anywho... here's my analysis. Google will not buy Sun. Reasons,
1) Google likes cheap commodity hardware not high end servers.
2) Google is in the software biz, not hardware, and there is no reason it needs to be in the hardware biz when there are a bunch other companies that are competing in that market.
It would be a competitive disadvantage to buy Sun since then they would be politically stuck with Sun hardware even if another hardware would be better.
3) There is little if any competitive advantage to using Soloris over Linux/BSD.
Also, Google will not go into Fin. Serv. and Healthcare.
That's all just silly talk. What competitive advantage do they have over a Merrill Lynch or a United Healthcare? None.
Google is an online services provider that makes money via ad revenue (e.g. Search with AdSense) and data services (e.g. KeyHole Google Earth).
They will continue to do this in various formats.
This is their core competency.
I remember this type of exuberance a few years back...
oh ya then the Dot Com crash came along.
3 - spif
If in fact the SEC is interested in your writings, they may be building a case against you for stock manipulation.
4 - Daniel M. Harrison
"If in fact the SEC is interested in your writings, they may be building a case against you for stock manipulation."
Glad you brought this up actually:
These articles are purely journalistic and should not be interpreted any other way, as I have consistently stated on my own blog.
I do not own nor am I acting in concert with anyone who own shares in Google or Sun Microsystems. In other words, I have nothing at all to gain from any price increases or decreases - if my articles make for popular reading, there is little I can do about that.
Again, thanks for flagging that one up.
5 - Phillip Winn
THanks for clearing that up, Daniel. You might want to add a disclaimer about not owning any Google or Sun stock and so on to these types of articles. If you've single-handedly driven the price of SUNW up as it appears you might have, well, the SEC would indeed be interested. ;-)
6 - Daniel M. Harrison
Philip: Have done - fantastic idea. To be honest, I'm amazed at all the interest ... my personal log had about 1300 hits today and these articles always go straight to number one. It's obviously a theme I have developed as my readers have come to see more but I never intended for it to be potentially taken so serously by the financial community. Thanks for the recommendation.
7 - BJ
Your article made it on digg.
8 - loosenut
"Stahlam is Wall Street's largest tech analyst"
Never heard of him. Is he like, the next Henry Blodgett or something?
Anyone who is interested in what really happens when wall st. tech analysts buddy up with corporate executives can see it all here:
9 - Nerdler
"Google is going into Financial Services and Healthcare!"
This is unbelievably asinine.
10 - You're still at it?
All of these blog entries have been pretty much void of any coherent analysis, logical reasoning, or even faint evidence that such a deal was even ever under consideration. You did an excellent job driving up traffic to your site and getting your name yammered around town by those who don't understand how to read or think critically, though. Congratulations. This entire premise and the ongoing blog entries are entirely absurd.
11 - markbnj
Daniel. Very interesting. Do you read Bob Cringley's blog? He had a series of Google articles that I excerpted here:
this article does show the original posts too.
But in a nutshell,
Google has (all these are ALLEGEDLY) purchased:
Dark fiber, all across the country
perfected the data center in a trailer
allegedly perfected the concept of inserting locally produced and inserted commercials into live tv (via the local POPS)
Now your suggestion could VERY very well fit right in with this.
If google had a HW brand (say SUN) then they could
use their own label machines in all those racks of data center trailers.
And they could also nicely fit financials and health care into these distributed data centers (in the parking lot of the RBOC's POP!)
IT's quite interesting!
12 - Diesel
it's amazing to see how interested people are in what google may or may not do. i have a feeling we're witnessing history being written (and daniel m harrison has made a fine job with the pen). keep up the good work d!
13 - ologge
Maybe try reading "Google is going into Financial Services and Healthcare" not as Google providing what Merrill Lynch or a United Healthcare already are, but a) going off on a tangent to the standard service and/or b) providing some core functionality to the existing players in those markets... and you may get some interesting ideas.
14 - JRoberts
Last time I checked google is not a software company. I don't think there is even a piece of software that is sold by google. Google is ad base driven in terms of profits. There doing great now, but they need another leg to stand on.
15 - Ken Edwards
EPIC and the Google Grid are not far off!
16 - Vincent Clement
"The New York Times' Dealbook blog is the most authoritative source of financial information on Wall Street, and the very fact that my comments " name attributed " have appeared there adds a phenomenal sign of crediility."
Ass kissing does nothing for your credibility. Nor does citing the fact that the NYT cited you by name. You have to earn not sell credibility (you also have to spell it correctly).
17 - nicholas barbati
where the dudes email
i would appreciate it if anyone could email me the stuff he mentioned in his blog
to [Personal contact info deleted]
much appreciated
thanx
18 - this
lol, financial services and healthcare? are you kidding?
19 - Rode Richen
Actually, the real "inside story" is that Google is actually moving toward acquiring the rights to the Beatles' song "Here comes the Sun" and are in intenses negotiations with Michael Jackson who owns the rights to the Beatles' music.
It wants to use the music and lyrics in a new ad campaign to promote its open office offering coming soon.