Comments on: In the Cloud, No One Fights House to House http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2009/05/19/house-to-house/ because technology is just another ecosystem Sun, 13 May 2012 00:23:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: People Over Process » Links for June 12th through June 13th http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2009/05/19/house-to-house/comment-page-1/#comment-551997 People Over Process » Links for June 12th through June 13th Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:02:28 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/?p=2805#comment-551997 [...] In the Cloud, No One Fights House to House"With all due respect to Sun’s ability get to market early, Network.com had little to offer an individual technologist. Because it was focused on batch operations that could be easily outsourced rather than general workloads, its applicability to my needs was questionable. This belief was further validated in the specialized nature of the customers of the service I spoke with: oil and gas exploration, fluid hydrodynamics research, digital animation rendering and so on. The typical customer case study from Network.com was as impressive as it was exceptional. Sun’s Grid was an early, impressive achievement, but one targeted to as narrow an audience, in my view, as its E10K machines - but without the similar margins." [...] [...] In the Cloud, No One Fights House to House"With all due respect to Sun’s ability get to market early, Network.com had little to offer an individual technologist. Because it was focused on batch operations that could be easily outsourced rather than general workloads, its applicability to my needs was questionable. This belief was further validated in the specialized nature of the customers of the service I spoke with: oil and gas exploration, fluid hydrodynamics research, digital animation rendering and so on. The typical customer case study from Network.com was as impressive as it was exceptional. Sun’s Grid was an early, impressive achievement, but one targeted to as narrow an audience, in my view, as its E10K machines – but without the similar margins." [...]

]]> By: dave shields http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2009/05/19/house-to-house/comment-page-1/#comment-547988 dave shields Wed, 20 May 2009 17:29:39 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/?p=2805#comment-547988 Steve, Great post. Not ohly does it combine the usual -- at least for Redmonk -- sound strategic insight and good writing, but as a lagniappe you include a charming metaphor and a provocative title. Keep up the good work, dave Steve,

Great post. Not ohly does it combine the usual — at least for Redmonk — sound strategic insight and good writing, but as a lagniappe you include a charming metaphor and a provocative title.

Keep up the good work,
dave

]]> By: Gordon Haff http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2009/05/19/house-to-house/comment-page-1/#comment-547750 Gordon Haff Tue, 19 May 2009 19:08:37 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/?p=2805#comment-547750 One thing that AMazon really did right was making it so readily consumable (which you sort of allude to but don't explicitly say). And perhaps that's why an online retailer got here first. Because retailers really understand how important it is to get in the way of customers handing you money--even in small increments. One thing that AMazon really did right was making it so readily consumable (which you sort of allude to but don’t explicitly say). And perhaps that’s why an online retailer got here first. Because retailers really understand how important it is to get in the way of customers handing you money–even in small increments.

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