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By: Al

Al — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:38:47 +0000

Brilliant post James, really getting to the crux of it.

Thoughts:

AWS is a market on a network, in Kenneth Bell’s model the network is first the instance tier, and the Market is the service tier. They build the network, the market builds itself and reinforces the network.

Unfortunately when viewed through IP colored glasses the fabric/IP/service layer appears designed to corner the market hence Azure/App engine and other similar approaches = less attractive to market participants.

I think Amazon gotta a lot right, I also believe that Ubuntu could proliferate the model assuming Amazon don’t throw them to many speed bumps

By: James Governor

James Governor — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:57:07 +0000

Stephen O’Grady – thanks! What can I say, I like your framework…

Ric – you are such a sweetie. I told Alexis Richardson you had name checked CohesiveFT, but I see CEO Patrick Kerpan is already here.

Brandon – be a little careful. I understand the Azure downtime was due to an OS upgrade, right? I take your point though, and frankly, the SQL Data Services stuff was the most interesting to come out of PDC. I just haven’t heard about people *using* it. Azure has lots of goodness, but until we see developers using the services we can’t really get a view.

Matt Patterson and Pat Patterson – thanks a lot for the confirmations. For obvious reasons I greatly respect both your opinions.

Kenneth- what Brandon said. Great stuff.

Paul- nice to hear from you. Thanks for confirming the point with some real world thinking.

Patrick Kerpan- we try! “apps that aren’t Channel4 or Animoto. Just the tedious day in – day out stuff of IT.” hah!

By: Patrick Kerpan

Patrick Kerpan — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:56:59 +0000

+1 generally on the points from the RedMonk gang. And a real +1 for Matt Patterson’s comment “It does help solve a bunch of problems which are both hard and really boring.”

This covers the realm of “POA” (plain old applications), that aren’t Channel4 or Animoto. Just the tedious day in – day out stuff of IT.

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