Comments on: Google Engine: Competitor or knock-off? http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/04/07/google-engine-competitor-or-knock-off/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: News: Google announces Amazon Web Services competitor | TechWinter http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/04/07/google-engine-competitor-or-knock-off/comment-page-1/#comment-337667 News: Google announces Amazon Web Services competitor | TechWinter Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:50:34 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=2326#comment-337667 [...] Mathew Ingram considers the possibility that it may be a knock-off service of Amazon which although possible is unlikely or at least overly sensational at this point since most technical luminaries on the web have raised the fact that it is not innovative over Amazon’s offering and uses a much more challenging development language Perl. [...] [...] Mathew Ingram considers the possibility that it may be a knock-off service of Amazon which although possible is unlikely or at least overly sensational at this point since most technical luminaries on the web have raised the fact that it is not innovative over Amazon’s offering and uses a much more challenging development language Perl. [...]

]]> By: mathewi http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/04/07/google-engine-competitor-or-knock-off/comment-page-1/#comment-374196 mathewi Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:12:04 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=2326#comment-374196 There's no question that AWS has to be a fairly gigantic cost center<br>at the moment, since Amazon said in its last quarterly report that the<br>bandwidth it uses is greater than all the rest of the company's<br>businesses put together -- and the revenue is lumped into a section<br>that came to about $131-million, which is peanuts.<br><br>I assume the business model for this and for Google's competing<br>service is the old "hook 'em with free (or cheap) and hope they<br>upgrade" model. There's no question that AWS has to be a fairly gigantic cost center
at the moment, since Amazon said in its last quarterly report that the
bandwidth it uses is greater than all the rest of the company's
businesses put together — and the revenue is lumped into a section
that came to about $131-million, which is peanuts.

I assume the business model for this and for Google's competing
service is the old “hook 'em with free (or cheap) and hope they
upgrade” model.

]]> By: Daniel Gibbons http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/04/07/google-engine-competitor-or-knock-off/comment-page-1/#comment-374195 Daniel Gibbons Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:39:54 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=2326#comment-374195 I'd be interested in your take on the economics of both AWS and Google's offering. Someone whose opinion and knowledge I trust told me earlier this year that AWS was considered internally to be a nightmare, contributing a tiny fraction of Amazon's revenue yet representing a disproportionately large proportion of the company's infrastructure costs. I'd be interested in your take on the economics of both AWS and Google's offering. Someone whose opinion and knowledge I trust told me earlier this year that AWS was considered internally to be a nightmare, contributing a tiny fraction of Amazon's revenue yet representing a disproportionately large proportion of the company's infrastructure costs.

]]> By: mathewi http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/04/07/google-engine-competitor-or-knock-off/comment-page-1/#comment-342415 mathewi Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:12:04 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=2326#comment-342415 There's no question that AWS has to be a fairly gigantic cost center<br>at the moment, since Amazon said in its last quarterly report that the<br>bandwidth it uses is greater than all the rest of the company's<br>businesses put together -- and the revenue is lumped into a section<br>that came to about $131-million, which is peanuts.<br><br>I assume the business model for this and for Google's competing<br>service is the old "hook 'em with free (or cheap) and hope they<br>upgrade" model. There's no question that AWS has to be a fairly gigantic cost center
at the moment, since Amazon said in its last quarterly report that the
bandwidth it uses is greater than all the rest of the company's
businesses put together — and the revenue is lumped into a section
that came to about $131-million, which is peanuts.

I assume the business model for this and for Google's competing
service is the old “hook 'em with free (or cheap) and hope they
upgrade” model.

]]> By: Daniel Gibbons http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/04/07/google-engine-competitor-or-knock-off/comment-page-1/#comment-342414 Daniel Gibbons Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:39:54 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=2326#comment-342414 I'd be interested in your take on the economics of both AWS and Google's offering. Someone whose opinion and knowledge I trust told me earlier this year that AWS was considered internally to be a nightmare, contributing a tiny fraction of Amazon's revenue yet representing a disproportionately large proportion of the company's infrastructure costs. I'd be interested in your take on the economics of both AWS and Google's offering. Someone whose opinion and knowledge I trust told me earlier this year that AWS was considered internally to be a nightmare, contributing a tiny fraction of Amazon's revenue yet representing a disproportionately large proportion of the company's infrastructure costs.

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