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Father of Google Apps: How Google entered the cloud (video)

By | December 9, 2011, 9:13am PST

Summary: Touted as the “father of Google Apps,” Google’s manager of Chrome for Business discusses how Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt once rejected the idea of Gmail.

At the GigaOm Net:Work conference in San Francisco, Google’s Rajen Sheth talks about how the product development of Gmail inspired Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt to embrace cloud computing.

The three at first “soundly rejected the idea” of Gmail because he was pitching it as packaged software, Sheth says. A few months later he came back with the concept of putting Gmail in the cloud.

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Rachel King is a staff writer for ZDNet based in San Francisco.

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Rachel King is a staff writer for CBS Interactive in San Francisco. Before serving as a contributing editor at ZDNet in New York City for two years, she previously worked for The Business Insider, FastCompany.com, CNN's San Francisco bureau and the U.S. Department of State. Rachel has also written for MainStreet.com, Irish America Magazine and the New York Daily News, among others. Rachel has a B.A. in Mass Communications and History from the University of California, Berkeley and a M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University, where she served as art director for the student magazine, Plated.

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The "father" or the guy who did the "google" to get the source ....
wackoae 9th Dec
... from available open source projects? Sorry but there isn't a single product from Google (outside of the search engine) that is original from Google. Even Android was created with a purchase, and most of it is not even code made or paid by Google. Not even Darwin, the alleged "clean room" version of the JavaVM (that contains exact code from the Java source tree) is original.

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