Hosting growth was strong on both sides of the Atlantic in 2003, with European providers largely keeping pace with American hosts in both percentage growth and hostname growth. Over 17 companies with greater than 50K hostnames in January 2003 had greater than 50% growth with seven of these in Europe. [Netcraft]
Chris Hanson dropped by and said, "Of course, what's unstated is that they believe developers are fungible. Differences in labor costs don't necessarily lead to as dramatic differences in total project cost for a wide variety of reasons." He is exactly right. IBM, Accenture, GE, and the Fortune 500 have industry and the media looking at the wrong numbers. Labor costs are only a component of the over all cost to produce a widget.
Thanks for the pointer, Dave. This is sweet! Finally, RSS going beyond news. What would be very cool is if I could further customize the feed by artist and other attributes, link it to my iTune Store account, and automatically download the music associated with the feed right to iTunes and my iPod via RSS enclosures. All I have to do is set up the feed once and the music - and money - flows.
One terabyte in a 6.3" x 3.4" x 10.6" space. That's right, 1TB on a desktop! "How much?" you ask. Most likely less than you bought your desktop for: $1,199. These guys at Lacie have got storage right. I'd love to see something like this just plug into my home network, with DHCP set as factory default, and be able to setup volumes via a web browser.
