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Robin Cornelius wrote: | | (even if i don't completly agree with all the comments :-)
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.
Since then Mozilla gained another 3% ;) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Debian - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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