发现自己完全没办法理解平路的叛逆。成长的过程，也是对世界妥协的过程。妥协到最后，留下的，就是自己了。
所谓的Situational Leadership, Development Cycle都是与这个世界谈判的方法。你在桌子这边，power and rich在桌子对面，你能留下多少，换回多少，就看能否按照他们的规则play。
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Monday, August 11, 2008
MS, Amazon, Google's ecosystems and their conflicts
A decade ago, MS was having conflict with software companies that builds software on windows platform, because there were allegation that MS favors its own application (e.g. IE, Office) over third-party applications.
Since 2 years ago, merchants renting Amazon's e-tailor platform are concerned about Amazon's being both the platform provider and a merchant will give its own stores an unfair advantage over other merchants. That's why Toys R US, Borders left Amazon and started building their own web storefront.
Now, Google's Knol is the target of complaining from content providers like Wikipedia and About.com, because Google might favor its own content website over others in its search engine.
One can see a pattern over all three disputes. A platform company moving into the domain of users of the platform. It's the most natural thing to do for those three companies, because they want to dominate the whole value chain, but those who got squeezed out will complain. It's important for the platform companies to balance its capitalization in the platform user's arena, so that they are not draining their own ecosystem.
Since 2 years ago, merchants renting Amazon's e-tailor platform are concerned about Amazon's being both the platform provider and a merchant will give its own stores an unfair advantage over other merchants. That's why Toys R US, Borders left Amazon and started building their own web storefront.
Now, Google's Knol is the target of complaining from content providers like Wikipedia and About.com, because Google might favor its own content website over others in its search engine.
One can see a pattern over all three disputes. A platform company moving into the domain of users of the platform. It's the most natural thing to do for those three companies, because they want to dominate the whole value chain, but those who got squeezed out will complain. It's important for the platform companies to balance its capitalization in the platform user's arena, so that they are not draining their own ecosystem.
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Cloud Computing
To me, cloud computing is not just a buzz word, but the key to handle concurrency, reliability and scalability in a massive scale.
Recently IEEE Spectrum article "Gameframe guild" really took my imagination by combining cloud computing with MMOG (multiplayer online game). The real demand comes from intensive 3D graphics in the new generaion of MMOGs.
And they are definitely "THE Killer Application" to drive the demand for high-performance cloud computing like IBM z10 (powered by Cell chip for floating point computing). In the market for low-end cloud computing (e.g. serving a website like facebook), Amazon EC2 will still have its market.
Google's cloud is so specialized for its search-engine, it's hard to say if they have an edge over other tech companies like Sun or IBM.
MS has tied itself to desktop application for too long. They need a major change to catch up.
With the Cloud Computing booming, no wonder the price for CS System Engineer rises 16% over the last 5 years, the highest among all engineering fields.
Recently IEEE Spectrum article "Gameframe guild" really took my imagination by combining cloud computing with MMOG (multiplayer online game). The real demand comes from intensive 3D graphics in the new generaion of MMOGs.
And they are definitely "THE Killer Application" to drive the demand for high-performance cloud computing like IBM z10 (powered by Cell chip for floating point computing). In the market for low-end cloud computing (e.g. serving a website like facebook), Amazon EC2 will still have its market.
Google's cloud is so specialized for its search-engine, it's hard to say if they have an edge over other tech companies like Sun or IBM.
MS has tied itself to desktop application for too long. They need a major change to catch up.
With the Cloud Computing booming, no wonder the price for CS System Engineer rises 16% over the last 5 years, the highest among all engineering fields.
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