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Google Hosting

September 27th, 2004

I don’t see google paid hosting as a good move for google.

Web hosting is a (still) highly fragmented marketplace.

Web hosting is fragmented market because it is a commodity product and there are low barriers to entry. I don’t see google overcoming either of these issues. They built their search brand based on having [...]

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Why is PHP Popular?

April 27th, 2004

Harry writes about MySQL as a disruptive technology, suggesting that PHP is a disruptive technology. He dredges up an old Sitepoint post of mine on how PHP is good enough software.
The summary being that software that values simplicity over everything else propagates faster.
Mike Cogan doesn’t understand why LAMP and especially “uncomfortable” PHP should be [...]

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