November 1
The virtual business
I think this is neat:
- business email accounts - virtual (thanks Google Apps)
- cost savings: Exchange license, servers to run it, admins to keep it going
- business phone number - virtual (thanks GrandCentral)
- cost savings: Qwest installation & monthly charges, PBX, secretary to route calls
- business fax number - virtual (thanks MaxEmail)
- cost savings: another Qwest line & charges, fax machine
- corporate website - virtual (thanks Google Apps)
- cost savings: another box, admins to keep it going
- development servers - virtual (thanks DreamHost)
- cost savings: more boxes, admins to keep them going
- development software - free (thanks Linux, Rails, Trac, Subversion, MySQL)
- cost savings: OS licenses, compiler/IDE licenses, application server licenses, Oracle license, Perforce license, document management/collaboration server license (we’re talking 10s of thousands of dollars just 5-10 years ago)
- production servers - virtual (thanks Amazon EC2)
- cost savings: data center/rack space, T1 charges, routers, firewalls, switches, servers, temperature sensors, RAID arrays, sysadmins to keep them going (we’re talking 100s of thousands of dollars just a few years ago)
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