4. Three Questions
Why Did the Number of US Automakers
Drop by 90% Between 1920 and 1940?
What Does that Mean for Cloud
Computing?
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5. Three Questions
Why Did the Number of US Automakers
Drop by 90% Between 1920 and 1940?
What Does that Mean for Cloud
Computing?
Why is Open Source Important Crucial to
the Future of Cloud Computing?
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33. • Grows from 1MM to 100+ MM insurance claims/day
in one week
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34. • Grows from 1MM to 100+ MM insurance claims/day
in one week
• Traditional solution: $750K new hardware + $30K/
month maintenance/hosting
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35. • Grows from 1MM to 100+ MM insurance claims/day
in one week
• Traditional solution: $750K new hardware + $30K/
month maintenance/hosting
• Cloud solution: $600/month Amazon Web Services
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37. What Lessons Does River Rouge Teach?
• Providers require scale to be competitive
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38. What Lessons Does River Rouge Teach?
• Providers require scale to be competitive
• Users will shift from being providers
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39. What Lessons Does River Rouge Teach?
• Providers require scale to be competitive
• Users will shift from being providers
• The scope and scale of applications will explode
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40. What Lessons Does River Rouge Teach?
• Providers require scale to be competitive
• Users will shift from being providers
• The scope and scale of applications will explode
• IT will infuse every dimension of life
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41. What Lessons Does River Rouge Teach?
• Providers require scale to be competitive
• Users will shift from being providers
• The scope and scale of applications will explode
• IT will infuse every dimension of life
• Our computing past is a poor predictor of our
computing future
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57. Proprietary Software Realities
• Licenses not agile or
flexible
• Software businesses
focused on old way
• Innovation occurring in
open source
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58. Proprietary Software Realities
• Licenses not agile or
flexible
• Software businesses
focused on old way
• Innovation occurring in
open source
• Open source enables
cloud providers
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59. Proprietary Software Realities
• Licenses not agile or
flexible
• Software businesses
focused on old way
• Innovation occurring in
open source
• Open source enables
cloud providers
• Open source enables
cloud users
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62. Conclusions
• Learn from history
• History teaches economic scale in scalable
industries
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63. Conclusions
• Learn from history
• History teaches economic scale in scalable
industries
• Cloud computing will transform the face of what
we consider computing
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64. Conclusions
• Learn from history
• History teaches economic scale in scalable
industries
• Cloud computing will transform the face of what
we consider computing
• Open source will be a critical and vital enabler of
cloud computing
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65. Conclusions
• Learn from history
• History teaches economic scale in scalable
industries
• Cloud computing will transform the face of what
we consider computing
• Open source will be a critical and vital enabler of
cloud computing
• The next twenty years will be fun ... and hard
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