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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups. Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Most likely, a Level 2 platform's apps also call into the platform via a web services API to draw on data and services. It's funny. I would tend to agree.

Platform 150
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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack.