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The Cloud is Not a Railroad - An Argument Against the Vertical Separation of Cloud Providers

High Scalability

While high infrastructure costs do create a barrier to entry to creating a cloud provider, this misses an important point: the benefits of the cloud come from the cloud model, not any particular cloud implementation. A Cloud Provider Absorbs Huge Fixed and Sunk Costs. Invent the future you want. That's easy to do, right?

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Exclusive: Jim Collins on ‘Thriving In Chaos’

Chief Executive

More information > Ask a few hundred CEOs from nearly every industry in nearly every part of the country for the name of the most useful business book they’ve ever read—as we recently did—and one title tops the list, and overwhelmingly so: Good to Great by Jim Collins. And if we do that, we can’t help but grow revenues per fixed cost.