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Kai's talk and .COM Re: [LUG] today's meets and some observations etc.



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Robin Cornelius wrote:
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| (even if i don't completly agree with all the comments :-)

Go on do say which.

Kai's talk was more general than I expected, I assumed it would be
more nitty gritty on issues of ownership, location, and mapping of
web apps into the filesystem - although he did discuss that with
Matt later.

Although some of the discussion covered the .com boom, I don't think
the .com boom necessarily reflects issues of technology. Holland
still has a flourishing trade in tulips. Nothing wrong with tulips,
just peoples perception of their value became unrealistic.

Certainly one of the .com companies I worked for was selling a
product (bandwidth and edge caching functionality) that in todays
ADSL enabled web probably has plenty of demand for, but at the time
they would have had to capture revenue equal to 20-30% of the entire
global webhosting market to make a profitable return for the venture
capitalists, and that was never going to happen.


IE market share was discussed.


http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2004/06/23/163393.aspx

Since then Mozilla gained another 3% ;)
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