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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack. Of course there were variants – we preferred PostGres to MySQL and many people used other programming languages than PHP. They started by offering cloud storage (S3) on a super cheap, pay-as-you consume basis.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Of course, there are still caveats - can they pass data security audits, what is your downtime risk and cost of downtime, what's the risk of the platform vendor. Some other points - LAMP,Net, Java - doesn't make much difference.

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