The dark side of an operations researcher. Or how operations research can be a funny subject. Wanna join me?.
Trough La Pastilla Roja I know about another cloud-based file-storage system: Clever-Safe.
This one though has a slightly different business model, since the later has been articullated as a FLOSS project backed up by a commercial arm, wether the former keeps the software propietary and has arranged it as a social tool.
Both, however, seem to rely on the same mathematical foundation.
That’s me! As an economist I had the technical and mathematical knowledge to model, as an amateur programmer I could run these models. However, I always wanted to enroll in Computer Science to professionalise my expertise; now is the time!.
I’m starting this week!!!
Voilà!, new company developes new technology that improves cloud storage; that’s Wuala. I knew from The Economist.
These guys have been more than three years constructing their architecture which consists of… your spare bandwith and disk space. By means of brand new technology based on mathematical polinomial analysis, your files are stored all over the social storing network minimising the redundancy (yes, there’s no whole file stored in a single computer neither a single computer storing a whole file, always taking into account the probability of a computer being offline). So that, hail to private cloud computing.
And I find funny (but clever) their business model: "Need more storage? No problem. Get the storage plan that fits your needs. Our technology allows us to offer extra storage at extremely competitive rates." (extracted from Wuala’s web, the underlined is ours). Sure it is!, but don’t miss their R&D costs during all this three years plus the extraordinary profit they deserve due to the clever breakthrough.
Cheers!!!
Through "La Pastilla Roja" (The Red Pill) I reach Fernando Acero’s Live Journal, I find quite interesting the stance of this guy and keep reading his blog, until I find this (Fernando’s original in Spanish):
"We don’t know what OS God uses, but we use Linux"
Sister Judith Zoebelein
Vatican Webmaster
"Copyleft 2008 Fernando Acero Martín. Verbatim copying, translation and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any digital medium, provided this notice is preserved."
It’s quite interesting, it seems this quote comes from an interview she gave last year in the ScobleShow you can find the whole interview here.
Is the middle future Windows version a Linux distribution?. Will we see how all MS software works natively in their own Linux distro?. There’s plenty of possibilities to make money there for Redmond’s company…
You know quite a few companies are basing their business releasing enterprise distros of their free-gratis open source linux versions (i.e. RH or Novell), so it would make sense that a company with uncountable versions of its OS could follow a similar strategy in the near future, that could be followed by a MS-Linux-like experience.
More on OSS business models on: 451 Chaos Theory.
