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Rupert Murdoch anti-Google strategy seems to becoming clear. Previously , I was puzzled at his public stance, it seems to make no sense. This Register piece , and there are many other sources, starts with: Rupert Murdoch is in talks with Microsoft over his plans to delist his newspaper websites from Google. Classic "My enemy's enemy is my Friend" thinking. It's not really so, they are only a temporary ally at best with a fragile common cause. The danger lies in your "friend" deciding they don't need you anymore or worse, turning on you once the main enemy is gone or the battle is lost. I still think Murdoch's strategy is seriously off the mark.

Stephen Bartholomeusz writing in Business Spectator, 18 Nov 2009 , on the ASIC court case over the collapse of One.Tel. Bartholomeusz neatly summarises the root cause of the failure: Unhappily, its billing systems didn’t work, so it piled up debtors, while its competitors responded to the cut-price strategies. He goes on to say: While professing publicly that the group was on-track to be cash-positive..., internally One.Tel appears to have had little control or understanding of its cash flows or the mounting issues created by its billing system and finishes: Whatever Rich might claim, One.Tel wasn't a successful company, unless success is measured by revenue, not cash flows or execution. This is the first case I've noticed where the immediate cause of failure of a large, public company  has been it's I.T. systems. The root cause is poor management with an inability to execute - or to understand and control it's I.T. The field of "Software Engineering" is 40 ...

"On the latter, Microsoft is hoping Windows 7 will pull it out of a financial hole" by Charles Arthur, Sydney Morning Herald, Nov 5, 2009 . First time I've seen in popular press the actual words "financial hole" w.r.t. Microsoft. Previous piece - "Microsoft Troubles V"