Today I read a article from the Motley Fool on cloud computing and how it will affect investors. Although it sounds like a great idea to invest in Google which has Google Docs, Knol, the most used search engine in the world (Google Search), App Engine, Google Project Hosting, and many other services Google's stock price was a whopping $470.30 per share on Friday so... some people would be afraid to buy something that high. Although Google has fallen a lot in the past year it might even fall more. In the Motley Fool article it says it's not to late to buy Google. I think that most people use the desktop solution with most of their computing and they seem to not be very interested in "Cloud Computing". I certainly am not. I even edit this web blog using the KDE application: Bloggilo. I have tried to use Google Docs or Acrobat.com but I still use OO.org and Nano. The thing that certainly should take off is Thin Client Computing. Although Microsoft has been trying to do this Novell seems to do this better. So... Novell's stock will probably go up a lot when people start computing with thin clients rather than with fat clients. Some people will also want a server that is not at home probably because of electricity bills or extra work thus, VPS and Dedicated Server hosting will rise in share price. One company that seems to do VPS and Dedicated Server Hosting very well is rackspace (Symbol: RAX) hosting. Red hat may also go up but I like my desktop apps and am not giving loosing them. X11 solutions seem to work best for thin client computing causing enterprise linux stock prices to rise. Also if cloud computing beats thin clients then the stocks Novell and Rackspace would still go up because lots and lots of servers are using GNU/Linux or BSD (Yahoo uses BSD) also Rackspace sells linux VPS hosting through Slicehost causing Rackspace to rise.
Monday, September 06, 2010
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