Re: If there were a sufficient money stream in the "ma and pas", IBM would

["Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/1/06, Jerome Hughes <jromeh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> things were different back then, but it's usually all in how you look
> at things
>
> many small customers can be a beautiful thing, depending on how well
> dealings with them are managed
>
> for a current example of a business building itself from the small, see
>
>    http://www.37signals.com
>
> not payroll (sorry, Anne) but still real applications as reasonably
> priced easily adopted services for small businesses providing a
> "money stream" while being the opposite of "office" applications with
> a small set of only appropriate features - the sort of apps, like the
> gApps, etc. that have BillCo concerned enough to be adopting "Live"
> strategies
>
> provides a glimpse of one direction in which that (large) market (of
> small businesses) may head, routing around the "need" for big
> hardware or support staff
>
> they've also extracted a web application framework from one of the
> apps and are having some success with it
>
>    http://www.rubyonrails.org

Looks great. How is the geared down, over priced i5 supposed to
compete in todays marketplace?

By ITJungle's calcs, the i5 for small business costs twice as much
with 1/3 the capacity of a Xeon based server.
http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh073106-story01.html
http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh073106-story01-fig01.html

-Steve