Develpers vs. Engineers: Technology vs. Solutions

aaron — Fri, 28 May 2010 18:10:44 +0000

Over the course of our search for new developers for WorkHabit, I’ve often gotten a letter or message from Drupal Zealots large and small — Drupal developers that were born and indoctrinated into the community and believe it’s the best thing since sliced bread.

And rightfully so. Drupal satisfies the technical requirements for a vast number of problems surrounding social software. There is, however, a delineating line between where Drupal leaves off and where other applications or programming languages may do things better. read more »

Portability, Utility Billing, and the evolution of cloud acquisitions... Houston, we have a problem?

jonathan — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:59:02 +0000

Here's an interesting problem. Through the dot com era (and slightly before), the hosting market was driven to ravenous acquisitions of companies based on the value of their customers. Companies were able to make acquisitions on the basis of their customer contracts - a fairly simple equation.

Cloud Computing is built on utility platforms. It doesn't actually have a lock-in on contracts. Your customer base is stuck with you only as long as nothing else better comes along, or the pain of moving outweighs other factors. read more »

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Develpers vs. Engineers: Technology vs. Solutions

Portability, Utility Billing, and the evolution of cloud acquisitions... Houston, we have a problem?