The end of the “Silicon” in Silicon Valley has been obvious for a long time, even if the timing has not. Given housing costs, salaries, regulation, water and energy issues, manufacturing in the Bay Area has been heading for the exit for more than a decade.
While looking for a location for a new R&D lab of a major carrier in the Valley, I stumbled over Joel West’s blog entry earlier this year:
The end of the story has been obvious for a long time, even if the timing has not. Given housing costs, salaries, regulation, water and energy issues, manufacturing in the Bay Area has been heading for the exit for more than a decade.
Well, for now it still glitters, but I wonder if there will be a rename to Web X.0 Valley …
An excellent (German) article by BITKOM summarizes business challenges, decision points, and business models of cloud-based solutions. BITKOM segments the “Cloud” space into Software, Platforms, and Infrastructure. While this is all true and good for current business, the Cloud stack looks more like Information, Relationships, Services, Platforms, Infrastructure, and Networks.
Germany is determined to have 75 per cent of all German households receive broadband speeds of at least 50 Mbps by 2014. Germany also heavily pushes DTT, 3G, 4G. Will 4G deliver 50 Mbps? And if not, what business model and usage scenarios under these circumstances will allow 50 Mbps fixed access for 75% of
Most amateur database programmers will answer you that any kind of application “basically only needs one big table”. Well, Twitter has proved them wrong. Just throwing more resources at a problem isn’t necessarily the best idea if your design is already flawed. That is also true for cloud-based testing, or even cloud-based testing of your
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