So as I'm bouncing around the Internet I land over at SwapDrive and burst out laughing at Symantec's pricing.
$49.50 a year for 2GB of backup storage?
Are their disk drive platters made of solid expensezanium? You get 2GB of Backup storage free with Mozy and 5GB of file sharing storage free with Windows Live SkyDrive.
I don't believe Symantec have their head around SaaS. Up their own SaaS maybe, the pricing shows that.
IBM enjoys a leadership position in building systems, and with the emergence of open standard cross-platform solutions and key strategic partnerships like Sun and Netscape, the future of OS/2 and network computing looks very bright indeed.
- John Thompson at the OS/2 WARP launch backing three losing horses all at the same time.
Before that he said in previous interviews that 1995 was going to be the year of OS/2 WARP and Microsoft didn't stand a chance in the face of IBM's relationship with business customers.
It's been an increasingly bizarre set of sound bites and posturing since then.
I also don't believe that Symantec's "file system experience" (VxFS had ancient features in it when I was a UNIX admin in the last decade and they're all still there today) is going to buy them a place at any table.
