Comments on: Free & Open Is Its Own Lock-in http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/free-open-is-its-own-lock-in User Experience Strategy, Ruby and Rails Web App Development Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:04:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Internet Alchemy » links for 2008-04-12 http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/free-open-is-its-own-lock-in/comment-page-1#comment-55980 Internet Alchemy » links for 2008-04-12 Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:36:21 +0000 http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/free-open-is-its-own-lock-in#comment-55980 [...] Free & Open Is Its Own Lock-in — Garrick Van Buren .com There are many types of lock-in: some bad… some good…. Sometimes you’re free to leave but you just don’t want to. (tags: open networks ecosystems) [...] [...] Free & Open Is Its Own Lock-in — Garrick Van Buren .com There are many types of lock-in: some bad… some good…. Sometimes you’re free to leave but you just don’t want to. (tags: open networks ecosystems) [...]

]]> By: Garrick Van Buren http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/free-open-is-its-own-lock-in/comment-page-1#comment-55954 Garrick Van Buren Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:40:45 +0000 http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/free-open-is-its-own-lock-in#comment-55954 Greg, I haven't done the math comparing the two, primarily because I'm a strong believer in 'you get what you pay for', plus, interacting with S3 isn't the same as interacting with MySQL. I have a hard time imagining the difference in price is so large that it overshadows the cost of learning how to be tied to Amazon. Last August, <a href="http://www.joyeur.com/2007/08/16/when-youre-really-pushing-traffic-amazon-s3-is-more-expensive-then-a-cdn" rel="nofollow">Jason Hoffman described a scenario where S3 would a more expensive option</a>. Greg,

I haven’t done the math comparing the two, primarily because I’m a strong believer in ‘you get what you pay for’, plus, interacting with S3 isn’t the same as interacting with MySQL. I have a hard time imagining the difference in price is so large that it overshadows the cost of learning how to be tied to Amazon.

Last August, Jason Hoffman described a scenario where S3 would a more expensive option.

]]> By: Greg Sadetsky http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/free-open-is-its-own-lock-in/comment-page-1#comment-55953 Greg Sadetsky Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:27:16 +0000 http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/free-open-is-its-own-lock-in#comment-55953 Don't you find Accelerator to be much more expensive than S3? Don’t you find Accelerator to be much more expensive than S3?

]]>