Craig Burton

I am reading The Big Switch by Nicholas Carr. Great reading.

Here is a quick quote:

"Capitalizing on advances in the power of microprocessors and the capacity data storage systems, fledgling utilities are beginning to build massive and massively efficient information processing plants, and they’re using the broadband Internet, with its millions of miles of fiber-optic cable, as the global grid for delivering their services to customers. Like the electric utilities before them, the new computing utilities are achieving economics of scale far beyond what most companies can achieve with their own systems.

Seeing the economic advantages of the utility model, corporations are rethinking the way they buy and use information technology. Rather than to devoting a lot of cash to purchasing computers and software programs go there beginning to plug into the new grid. The shift not only promises to change the nature of corporate IT departments but to shake up the entire computer industry. Big tech companies — Microsoft, Dell, Oracle, IBM, and all the rest — have made tons of money selling the same systems did thousands of companies. As computing becomes more centralized, many of those sales will dry up. Considering the businesses spend well over $1 trillion a year on hardware and software, the ripple effects will be felt throughout the world economy."

This phenomenon is not only occurring with outsourcing IT services such as file, print, directory, Web, and security, but also common programming resources.

The following are some notes taken from the announcement of the Google app engine. The two most notable quotes from the announcement were:

"Google app engine is a system to expose Google scalable infrastructure to your server side web applications."

The other was a quote by Guido when introducing the Python integration with Google app engine.

I don’t have the direct quotes right here but to paraphrase he said:

"I have been programming for 30 years, I do not like setting up programming infrastructure I just want to code software. I let the other is set up the infrastructure I don’t even know how to do it."

Here are my key comments on the whole thing:

We are not just realizing a revolution occurring with organization IT resources, but the revolution is happening across the board for users suppliers programmers resellers organizations and vendors.

The Internet Suite and the Linux Suite are at the core of this revolution. Without the utilizization of the core suites — the Internet Suite and the Linux Suite — none of this would be happening.

The Core Suites are like public electricity "Internet power" to the doorstep.