GigaOM Interviews Ray Ozzie
Posted on March 10, 2008
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The interview focuses on the next steps in the OS and most interestingly on cloud computing.
In particular I liked the part about Amazon’s ability to make money on AWS
OM: When do you think utility computing can be a profitable business; are we’re looking at like maybe two years, four years out before it actually starts to become a profitable entity?
RAY OZZIE: (Let’s) take (one company) who is in the market today: Amazon. They chose a price point. There are either customers at that price point or not. They may have priced themselves at expected costs as opposed to actual today costs, but it doesn’t really matter. They could have brought it out at twice the existing price and there still would have been a customer base, and they’d be making money at birth.
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