With almost 70% of the IT leaders choosing Microsoft, the results failed to surprise me. Also, the results of these polls do more good than harm to Google. Here is why!

Microsoft has been a market leader in providing enterprise solution to the IT leaders across the world. The company has seen its share of highs and lows in the technology sector and while they have learned from their mistakes and delivered in the toughest situations, it just wasn’t good enough for the 30% of the poll participants who decided to go Google.

Anyone who remotely knows about Google and Google’s enterprise technology and initiatives will tell you that this poll came a little too early than it should have. Google hasn’t done much when it comes to enterprise solutions, except the enterprise search. The company is just getting started with its “Google Apps” initiative which is primarily targeted at education and business organizations.

Like any other company Google is evolving everyday with every interaction it has with the clients and customers. There lies a great potential for Google and threat for Microsoft in the 30% that is ready to go with Google’s business technology already.

While Google has speedy deployments, simpler and cheaper solutions going for its advantage Microsoft is known for its serious, versatile and high delivering business products such as exchange server and Microsoft office, etc..

The most visible factors going against Google are 1) Long lasting beta label. 2) Moving too quickly into too many directions, 3) No trust in cloud based solutions, etc.. and when it comes to Microsoft, it is simply too expensive for some.

Following are few quotes from the IT leaders who either chose to go with Microsoft or Google.

• “Microsoft. Mostly a case of the devil whose enterprise business model you know, versus the devil you don’t.” (Patrick Gray, President of Prevoyance Group)
• “Google seems to be moving too fast into too many areas. I don’t think they really have a focus on security and trust. Microsoft learned that lesson in a most painful manner. Google seems to have the same irreverence that Microsoft had in their earlier days.” (Matthew Metcalfe, Director of IS for Northwest Exterminating)
• “Microsoft. Google, to me, tends to be intrusive and to urge the consolidation of data in remote locations, often before such a move is proven safe or secure. Microsoft just wants our money.” (David Wilson, Director of IT for VectorCSP)
• “Microsoft. We are not, nor will we be in the foreseeable future, involved in the ‘cloud’ as an integral part of our internal IT offerings.” (David Van Geest, Director of IT for The Orsini Group)
• “Google. Because between the two, so far, Google hasn’t screwed me with ‘comply or die’ campaigns and there seems, for now, to be an effort on cross platform compatibility on Google’s part, whereas Microsoft wants to be all or nothing.” (Martin Szalay, Director of IT for FWE Co)

Things are poised to change in the time to come where not everything will be in the cloud as Google may want it but not everything will be on the desktop either as Microsoft desires. Products like Google Gears and Office Live are best examples of how technology will sync the information online and offline.

That said, Google will certainly gain more market share and pose a bigger threat to Microsoft as they aggressively more into the business and enterprise sector. The future is bright!

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