> ...if you tried to run a cloud compute product with the traditional Google model it would (in my opinion) fail miserably.
Google does sell G Workspace to enterprises? YouTube also seems to do well with enterprise-y stuff involving the Movie and Music industry, as another example.
GCP is all-enterprise zero-consumer, sure. But: GCP's got execs from SAP and Oracle at helm, and I believe, it is a problem that, over the shorter-term, they can throw money at (by hiring execs from Dell / Oracle / Cisco / HP / IBM / Qualcomm, as at that scale of spend, enterprise sales is mostly a game of who knows who).
Google does sell G Workspace to enterprises? YouTube also seems to do well with enterprise-y stuff involving the Movie and Music industry, as another example.
GCP is all-enterprise zero-consumer, sure. But: GCP's got execs from SAP and Oracle at helm, and I believe, it is a problem that, over the shorter-term, they can throw money at (by hiring execs from Dell / Oracle / Cisco / HP / IBM / Qualcomm, as at that scale of spend, enterprise sales is mostly a game of who knows who).