14 DAY TRIAL // In a recent speech at the Gartner Symposium in Orlando, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt expressed his dismay at what tablets are doing to the big enterprise environment, BusinessInsider reports.
So far software companies like Oracle and Microsoft have pushed their software at enterprises in return for impressive revenues, but now thanks to tablets and other mobile devices the dogma appears to be changing, big time.
Schimdt believes that the classic big software company model is expiring slowly but surely. Oracle and Microsoft are, of course, still doing business, but as tablets get embedded more and more into every field of human activity, things are bound to change. And he is actually astounded for not having noticed this would happen.
“I was actually surprised by this. I didn't call this. Would the phone replace the PC? I figured employees would be using a PC and a phone. But it was the tablet revolution. It looks to us like the majority of enterprise computing is being done on mobile devices, in particular on tablets. That broke the old model.”
So there you have it, tablets might end up replacing all the familiar gear and data center technology, enterprises have set up over the years. He didn't go on to create a fully-fledged theory about what kind of replacements we’ll end up seeing. Probably, just simple apps and software off the cloud.