"I'm thrilled that Google is there, because they are the heat shield," Chizen said.

Bruce Chizen, chief executive officer of Adobe Systems, the San Jose software maker, talked about the encroaching ambitions of Microsoft in various fields of software, a development that he called flattering. He then thanked Google for releasing products that compete with Microsoft's software business, such as calendars and a word processor, because, he said, Microsoft is distracted by it.

Web 2.0 Summit 2006