Boy has Dreamhost put an expiration date on the long term business viability!
They have taken what is seemingly good idea for their bottom line in terms of support and maintenance of mail server services, and have just sold themselves out of one of the most important aspects of the hosting business ( and most subscription service businesses)...... VENDOR LOCK-IN!!
I'm not saying that I'm a proponent of vendor lock-in, who as a customer is? But as a service provider, the more your customers are tied and dependent to your service, the more likely that the comfort zone of maintaining the status-quo will keep them as your customer.
For many organizations, mail services and mail data have got to be one of the primary factors that keep them with their current providers. Migrating data, accounts etc... is an expensive endeavor.
Personally, as a Dreamhost customer who has used the automatic google Apps for your Domain setup on the dreamhost panel, I thought the feature was great.... given that I never used dreamhosts mail servers anyway and have been using gmail (and calendar and...) for some time.
But purely looking at this as a business decision, it's a horrible move. There is reason that Google is offering mail services for free. To keep you as a captive audience. There will be a time when hosting all your mail data will reap great rewards (keep an eye on your TOS ppl!)
The expression that comes immediately to mind to characterize the future of the internet business model is....
"All your data are belong to us!"
I believe SoftGrid has actually been around awhile. From what I remember SoftGrid is a product made by a company called Softricity that produced this product. Actually if you go to softricity.com it will redirect you to MS site so they probably did buy the product and/or company.
SoftGrid was being used for Citrix and MS terminal Services to manage and share resources amongst instance of applications running through RDP and Citrix
Sounds like a pretty weak cheap shot on the side of IBM. There's not really a definition of a 'true open source project', the whole idea is that he who owns the project can call the shots how they see fit. Because it is Open Source, if IBM doesn't like how the project is progressing, they are free to fork the code and take it in their own direction. This guys whole gripe is that he thinks that IBM should have some right to hijack and redirect the project or get free benefits from the project without committing any significant resource to it.
And at the end of the day, what does IBM care about openSolaris anyway? It's a competing product, which makes this guys comments amount to nothing but a whole lot of empty rhetoric
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Boy has Dreamhost put an expiration date on the long term business viability!
They have taken what is seemingly good idea for their bottom line in terms of support and maintenance of mail server services, and have just sold themselves out of one of the most important aspects of the hosting business ( and most subscription service businesses)...... VENDOR LOCK-IN!!
I'm not saying that I'm a proponent of vendor lock-in, who as a customer is? But as a service provider, the more your customers are tied and dependent to your service, the more likely that the comfort zone of maintaining the status-quo will keep them as your customer.
For many organizations, mail services and mail data have got to be one of the primary factors that keep them with their current providers. Migrating data, accounts etc... is an expensive endeavor.
Personally, as a Dreamhost customer who has used the automatic google Apps for your Domain setup on the dreamhost panel, I thought the feature was great.... given that I never used dreamhosts mail servers anyway and have been using gmail (and calendar and...) for some time.
But purely looking at this as a business decision, it's a horrible move. There is reason that Google is offering mail services for free. To keep you as a captive audience. There will be a time when hosting all your mail data will reap great rewards (keep an eye on your TOS ppl!)
The expression that comes immediately to mind to characterize the future of the internet business model is.... "All your data are belong to us!"
I believe SoftGrid has actually been around awhile. From what I remember SoftGrid is a product made by a company called Softricity that produced this product. Actually if you go to softricity.com it will redirect you to MS site so they probably did buy the product and/or company. SoftGrid was being used for Citrix and MS terminal Services to manage and share resources amongst instance of applications running through RDP and Citrix
Sounds like a pretty weak cheap shot on the side of IBM. There's not really a definition of a 'true open source project', the whole idea is that he who owns the project can call the shots how they see fit. Because it is Open Source, if IBM doesn't like how the project is progressing, they are free to fork the code and take it in their own direction. This guys whole gripe is that he thinks that IBM should have some right to hijack and redirect the project or get free benefits from the project without committing any significant resource to it. And at the end of the day, what does IBM care about openSolaris anyway? It's a competing product, which makes this guys comments amount to nothing but a whole lot of empty rhetoric