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A startup cloud company is prone to death even moreso than other startups I would think. You've got a physical deliverable which has extremely high expectations
by trickjarrett 17y ago
A startup cloud company is prone to death even moreso than other startups I would think. You've got a physical deliverable which has extremely high expectations and low acceptance for growing pains.
Further corporate cloud services are something that can't easily (to my knowledge, I'm not an expert on them) be done by three guys out of an apartment.
- lsc 17y agodepends on what you mean by "cloud" - if ec2 is the cloud, yeah, three guys in a basement can do a hosting company. Takes some capital, but not that much. EC2 is not competing on price. I believe few weeks of hacking on a good provisioning system is all that is stopping me from claiming to be a 'cloud computing' provider, in the sense that ec2 is a 'cloud' The ec2 cloud is a lot like traditional dedicated servers, only with a nice provisioning interface. The advantage of that is it's linux; and there are many providers willing to rent you linux boxes. you just need to modify your provisioning setup. Now, if you mean 'the cloud' like google's app engine or something else that is a platform that is only offered by one provider, then yeah, I agree. you never want to be in a position where you are dependent on one supplier.