I'm on the not so high speed rail link from Dublin to Cork watching my 3G modem flap like a pair of unwashed oversized Y-Fronts hanging from a flag pole during a hurricane.
Yet another image you're free to take to the grave with you.
Onto new business.
Len Devanna is promising people free beer at EMC World. Well that's not what he's promising but you get the idea.
Unlike a lot of other events where the industry Legends In Their Own Living Rooms pretend they're too busy to hang out with you (Translation: They're out sucking up to the hand full of vendors who'll give them the time of day), that's not going to happen here. Here's a link to the sign up sheet. (The password is community) All you need to do is show up with a sense of humour, see who manages to get away from the mania involved in keeping EMC World running and we'll see where it goes from there.
Now for some old business.
I mentioned AWS doing $100M in revenue in 2007 and then did some digging. Since Amazon have moved well beyond the utilisation of excess capacity phase it looks like they're operating S3/EC2 at a substantial loss. Which explains why Google have taken so long to offer anything even remotely similar as currently without ad money there's no money.
With the economy being what it is one wonders for how much longer Amazon will continue to happily subsidize every user of their AWS offerings? Their capacity is as finite as everyone else's so eventually there will have to be another big infrastructure spend cycle where Amazon have to decide if they're going to go deeper into the hole or not.
It'll be interesting to see which way they jump.
