Emergic: November 5, 2006 Archives

Sunday, November 5, 2006

The Next Billion Users

WSJ writes how tech firms atr wooing the next users:

The Intel projects in two of the world's largest and fastest-growing economies -- and similar ones in other countries -- are part of a broader push by it and other tech giants to do well by doing good in poorer parts of the world that until recently have been largely cut off from technology.

Their aim is to reach what executives call "the next billion users" of consumer technologies like the Internet and cellular phones. The images of executives helping the poor can also help maintain good relations with the government, a critical part of doing business in both China and India.

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Amazon's Next Bet

Business Week writes:

Bezos wants Amazon to run your business, at least the messy technical and logistical parts of it, using those same technologies and operations that power his $10 billion online store. In the process, Bezos aims to transform Amazon into a kind of 21st century digital utility. It's as if Wal-Mart Stores Inc. had decided to turn itself inside out, offering its industry-leading supply chain and logistics systems to any and all outsiders, even rival retailers. Except Amazon is starting to rent out just about everything it uses to run its own business, from rack space in its 10 million square feet of warehouses worldwide to spare computing capacity on its thousands of servers, data storage on its disk drives, and even some of the millions of lines of software code it has written to coordinate all that.

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We have been using amazon infrastructure (s3 storage) for slideshare.net, and I have to say I have been extremely impressed.

The fact that your costs are pegged to usage makes it a great service for startups: there is no need for any pre-investment at all, you only start spending real money once you're successful. And the fact that it's already web-scale really helps. Anything you have offloaded to amazon scales up transparently, without you having to do anything.

We're messing arround with EC2 and I'm equally impressed by that. These services are GREAT resources, especially for bootstrapped Indian startups that need to be more capital-efficient.

Posted by Jonathan Boutelle

IBM, Sun, HP & Dell are doing this for enterprises. This with SaaS. It saves much of the services work for the enterprises. Scott McNealy of Sun put it once ?This is what we would be doing 3000 years from now?, why not now...

Posted by Balamurugan Guruthur