Paul Krill asked a few questions about the future of PaaS last month for an omnibus appdev article of his (it’s a nice round up!). Here’s the only slightly edited full reply I sent him:
Q: Does 451 Group see 2013 as a banner year for PaaS? If so, why?
PaaS has always had the issue of being “big next year.” The nature of PaaS has shifted around so many times that it’s little wonder it’s yet to achieve escape velocity.
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IBM Watson drove <$100m revenue in 2013
You know, $100m actually seems pretty good for something so obscure and weird. IBM Chief Executive Virginia “Ginni” Rometty has told executives she hopes Watson will generate $10 billion in annual revenue within 10 years, according to an October 2013 conference-call transcript reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. She set that target after the executive in charge of Watson said its business plan would bring in $1 billion of revenue a year by 2018.
Press Pass: GitHub Traffic Analytics Comments
GitHub Traffic Analytics service gives developers insight into interest in their projects
Paul Krill asked for some quick input on GitHub’s newly released analytics. Here’s what I sent over for his story:
As the blog post says, it does look like fun, though pretty minor in the grand scheme of things. GitHub has been a major driver of getting the development community to care more about social interactions and collaborations, here, tracking who’s looking at your code and where they’re coming from - standard web analytics stuff.
"Digital pennies"
The app economy shows that there are big opportunities in “digital pennies” and that the figures are beginning to match even the “analog dollars”. In fact, I suspect eventually digital pennies will dwarf analog dollars. The trouble is that these pennies will not be earned at the same control points. Bits are already big bucks. They’re just not the bits we are used to.
“Digital pennies”
Apigee adds usage analytics with InsightOne acquisition
The InsightsOne group has offered predictive analytics for consumer companies. It finds patterns from multiple sources of information. For example, Hasan explained how its analytics might help provide patterns in data from a fitness monitor but also health claim information. With that encompassing profile, a company may provide deeper intelligence insights.
One use-case area:
For example, there is the increasing amounts of data that people and machines create.
Bottoms up, viral spread still works
Cloud startups like Dropbox pose a problem because they are viral in their sign-up and billing. This is what has given them a foot in the door at SMBs and the departments of big companies, and resulted in CIOs’ business-collaboration platforms becoming based on Dropbox before they know it.
Also, some good insights into IBM go-to-market thinking around software.
Bottoms up, viral spread still works
Pretty good explanation of the Red Hat/CentOS kumbaya
“Red Hat’s open source business is strong enough that CentOS is effectively a mindshare force multiplier rather than a RHEL competitor,” noted Ryan Paul, Ars’ former open source guru.
And, making it harder for Oracle too.
Pretty good explanation of the Red Hat/CentOS kumbaya
Profile of SnapChat, and turning down billions
FORBES estimates that 50 million people currently use Snapchat. Median age: 18. Facebook, meanwhile, has admittedly has seen a decline among teenagers. Its average user is closer to 40. … “I can see why [SnapChat is] strategically valuable,” one leading venture capitalist tells FORBES. “But is it worth $3 billion? Not in any universe I’m aware of.
Profile of SnapChat, and turning down billions
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I’ve spent years puttering around at the “infrastructure layer” in IT: programming, systems management, cloud, all that gunk. From what I can tell much of the growth in IT is being driven by companies wanting to engage in “social” more. What is “social,” though? Indeed, that’s one of the things this podcast will try to figure out (hopefully with as much delightful rat-holing as Horace). Also, we’ll discuss my need for slippers that masquerade as socks so I can get them past my wife’s 2nd floor blockade.
Mostly though, it’s a McGuffin for getting to talk with Chris more.
On that note, here’s the video we recorded earlier. A podcast format with all the bells and whistles will follow.
We just having a working title now: Connected Culture and Obscure Stuff, which is much better than our original working title.
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SDN adoption expected to be slow
[L]ess than 30 percent of the 321 IT professionals surveyed have deployed or plan to deploy SDN in the next year. Add on another 40 percent that have no plans to implement SDN at all.
SDN adoption expected to be slow