InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

The dawn of personal computers by home hobbyists created the perfect environment for software sharing, yet it was young Bill Gates who convinced that nascent market that software development costs money and needed to be purchased, just like hardware. The earliest mega-scale web services (e.g., Six Reasons Why The Time Is Now.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Networking Software 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing. It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack. These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups. Level 1 & 2 Burden is still on the developers, you still have infrastructure. Must design your application differently to live on top of the platform. Some other points - LAMP,Net, Java - doesn't make much difference.

Platform 150

Platform EC2 Java S3 150