Blogarithms
Doug Kaye's thoughts on web services, web hosting and managed services.
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.NET Alerts. As Matt Griffith observed, Microsoft has recently reduced the price of its .NET Alert service, eliminating the initial $15,000 fee and charging Subscription fees that start at $.075 US per user per month. But as Simon Fell points out, ".NET Alerts partners require a [$10,000] Passport license." Microsoft also warns, "Space is limited." Consider this a business-prevention deal. Strangers need not apply. You can bet that those partners whom Microsoft wants as early adopters of .NET alerts aren't paying a dime.
Posted Monday, July 01, 2002 11:03:47 PM 
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Vendors: Stay on Target. This month, Brent and Bill of The Stencil Group offer good advice to vendors of web-services products and highlight recent decisions by Novell.
Posted Monday, July 01, 2002 12:02:55 PM
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Is Hosting Still Hot? Last week, Information Week surveyed trends in the hosting business. Highlights:
"U.S. businesses operate an estimated 97% of all IT systems in-house, according to Tier 1 Research." [That must include all potential outsourcing, not just hosting.]
"But the shakeout may be a good thing. 'Consolidation has made the stronger ones better,' says Dan Agronow, VP of technology at The Weather Channel." [I agree]
"It's become clear that basic hosting services such as simply co-locating computers in a shared facility are 'stick-a-fork-in-it dead,' Loudcloud's Andreessen says. To be successful, 'you've got to be high-end, serving high-end customers, and you've got to be at scale," he says. "And if you can do all three of these things, it's a nice business.'" [I disagree. It may not be glamorous, but if you know what you're doing, you can run a healthy colo business.]
Posted Monday, July 01, 2002 10:19:09 AM
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Majority of Web Servers are Vulnerable. Mike Prettejohn of Netcraft reports that over half of the Internet's web servers are now potentially vulnerable to attack due to (a) Microsoft's recently announced HTR buffer overflow problem, and (b) the June 17 announement that Apache web server are vulnerable to a buffer overflow through flawed functionality affecting its "Chunked Encoding" mechanism. Has your service provider protected your servers?
Posted Monday, July 01, 2002 9:47:24 AM
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