The End Of Software - Anibal's Blog

Following the excellent thread of articles from ArsTechnica, now they publish "Cloud platform choices: a developer's-eye view". In the overview, we can find the state of the art for a tech business development in the cloud. As bullet point we can have a tech business running on: A DIY model (buying servers, building a network, etc) Traditional hosting/dedicated services Cloud-based Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) (e.g. Amazon or Rackspace) Platform as a Service (PaaS) (e.g. Google's App Engine or Saleforce.com's Force.com) To add a note to the original article, thinking to begin small, in an entrepreneur or SMB context: A "DIY model" is out of the question, too expensive and complex. There's no way to leverage in time the initial costs. It's better to relay on someone. "Traditional hosting/dedicated services". It's already commoditized. There's a lot of price choices, satisfied (or not) customers, opinions, etc. A whole market. "IaaS" (Amazon or Rackspace)... Immature ......