Re: [PLUG] Red Hat's new PaaS cloud service

[Julien Vehent <julien@linuxwall.info>]

On Thu, 05 May 2011 12:23:02 -0400, Mike Leone wrote:
> On 5/5/2011 11:57 AM, Ron Kaye Jr wrote:
> > citrix tried to push app hosting 20 years ago
> > no enthusiasm from the user community
> > how would this be different?
>
> Because it's not 20 years ago? :-)
>
> Seriously, things change a LOT in 20 years, both in hardware, 
> software
> design and development, infrastructure (high speed access cheaply),
> mind-boggingly cheap hardware costs compared to 20 years ago, 
> different
> client expectations (perhaps), different implementation (based on 
> what
> they learned 20 years ago), etc.
>
> Not to say that it would work this time, but the environment is so
> different now, the results might be, too.


Because 20 years ago your maximum bandwidth was basically a 28kbps 
modem, and today you have FiOS at home and at the office for $100 a 
month.


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