One of my favorite Mark Twain quotes is, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.” I thought of it again last week when I read about the price war going on in the Infrastructure as a Service space. Larry Dignon made the clever observation that he paid more for electricity in January than it cost to get IT infrastructure now that Microsoft and Amazon have decided to double down on the infrastructure game. Call it “Profit as an Option,” or PaaO. The whole cloud computing trend reminds me of the history of the application service provider market a dozen years ago.
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It's ASP All Over Again
Posted by: Denis Pombriant March 14, 2012 05:00 AMOne of my favorite Mark Twain quotes is, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.” I thought of it again last week when I read about the price war going on in the Infrastructure as a Service space. Larry Dignon made the clever observation that he paid more for electricity in January than it cost to get IT infrastructure now that Microsoft and Amazon have decided to double down on the infrastructure game. Call it “Profit as an Option,” or PaaO. The whole cloud computing trend reminds me of the history of the application service provider market a dozen years ago.