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Handful Of Monopoly Infrastructure Players - Not So Fast

Handful Of Monopoly Infrastructure Players – Not So Fast

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 22, 2010

This is the second post on the topic I have been emphasizing on many different forums. My earlier post, Handful Of Monopoly Infrastructure Players – A Shortsighted Idea, laid out philosophical and economic reasonings against the idea of the emergence of handful of infrastructure providers. This idea is a pet theme for many cloud pundits. […]

Posted in Strategy | Tagged china, cloud computing, compliance, federated clouds, India, Indian government, monopoly, monopolycloudplayers, regulations | 2 Responses

Intel Relaxes Rules on NetBook Resolution.  Next Obstacle is Screen Size

Intel Relaxes Rules on NetBook Resolution. Next Obstacle is Screen Size

By Zoli Erdos on July 13, 2009

I often spoke up against idiotic screen size / resolution limits that render Netbooks close to useless, yet the de facto industry standard appears to be 1024 x 600. What’s wrong with that?  Well, nothing, unless you plan to browse, or in fact interact with web sites, since websites today are designed at a resolution […]

Posted in Product reviews | Tagged duopoly, intel, laptops, microsoft, monopoly, netbook, netbooks, notebooks, resolution, screen size | 2 Responses

Handful Of Monopoly Infrastructure Players - A Shortsighted Idea

Handful Of Monopoly Infrastructure Players – A Shortsighted Idea

By Krishnan Subramanian on July 10, 2009

Some commentators in the field of Cloud Computing like to promote the idea that there will be a single (or a handful) monopoly player(s) in the Cloud infrastructure market. The biggest reason quoted to justify this claim is the high cost of building and maintaining the datacenters. The supporters of this school of thought argue that not many companies can […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged business, cloud computing, federated clouds, iaas, infrastructure, monopoly, monopolycloudplayers | 8 Responses

Network Effects Will Lead to SaaS Vendor Lockin?

By Krishnan Subramanian on July 3, 2009

As people in US enter the long weekend of July 4th (independence day), we have something to ponder about the independence of SaaS users. Alistair Croll, writing on GigaOm, points us to the possibility of SaaS vendor lock-in as a result of network effects. Once a SaaS provider hits a certain size, secondary business models […]

Posted in General | Tagged monopoly, network effects, saas, vendor lockin

Microsoft Bans Netbook Use When the Sun is Shining, the Sky is Blue and on Weekends

Microsoft Bans Netbook Use When the Sun is Shining, the Sky is Blue and on Weekends

By Zoli Erdos on June 7, 2009

Which is about now… so in compliance, I am typing this on a desktop. Joke apart, the latest Decree From The Monopolist:  hybrid netbooks (both SSD and harddisk) are banned from sale with Windows XP Home edition.  No kidding. Nothing new, of course, just another attempt in a series of blows by Microsoft to try […]

Posted in General | Tagged hybrid storage, microsoft, monopoly, netbook, netbooks, ssd, win7, windows 7, windows xp, winxp

Screen Size: The Next Plan to Cripple Netbooks in Order to Protect a Dying Market

Screen Size: The Next Plan to Cripple Netbooks in Order to Protect a Dying Market

By Zoli Erdos on May 26, 2009

The proliferation of affordable netbooks is good for everyone – consumers, that is.  Computer manufacturers loath it (high volume, low margin business) and so does Microsoft: they can’t exactly sell $100+ worth of software on a $200 machine.  So they come up with all sorts of evil plans. First there was the Windows 7 plan: […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged android, intel, linux, microsoft, monopoly, netbook, netbooks, operating system, os, price fixing, scam, web apps, windows, windows 7 | 1 Response

Market Share vs. Popularity

Market Share vs. Popularity

By Zoli Erdos on March 20, 2009

Who am I to question the great Walt Mossberg?  But when he says Internet Explorer is the World’s most popular browser I have to wonder… Here’s a definition of popularity from Wikipedia: Popularity is the quality of being well-liked or common. Looks like Mossberg is right if we focus on common.  Internet Explorer is no […]

Posted in General | Tagged IE, ie7, ie8, internet explorer, microsoft, monopoly, vista, walt mossberg, windows

Resistance is Futile: Google is Unstoppable

Resistance is Futile: Google is Unstoppable

By Zoli Erdos on February 11, 2009

Two seemingly unrelated items: Today Hitwise reported on how Google Maps is catching up on Mapquest, which once was the king of online mapping.   Perhaps more important than just the numbers is the source of traffic:  61% of Google Maps traffic comes from links placed in organic Google Search results.  Contrast that to Mapquest, […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged borg, electricity, email, energy, gmail, google, google maps, gotmail, health 2.0, Health care, hotmail, mapquest, microsoft, monopoly, yahoo | 1 Response

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