Is Azure in your shoot-out? I'd be interested in hearing those results... On Wednesday, May 7, 2014 9:07:34 PM UTC-4, duncan macneil wrote: > > > I don't wanna be one of those guys who just compares on price alone.... > but I will obviously be comparing price to other options. (By which I mean > 'value for money' not 'lowest price' SmartCloud got criticism for being > 'more expensive' than the lowest common denominator, but I doubt those who > complained actually took out those servers for a test-run to see how snappy > they were for the price-points on offer.) > > I'd also need to spend time working out how things like backups, billing > (and on-billing), alerts, CDN and other features work before diving in. > Nothing too serious, but it does take an investment of time to learn these > things. > > But to sum it all up it really has to do with fit for purpose. On smaller > projects, there's not too much going on in one release cycle. So a simple > 'post-and-host' will do for me. On larger projects where there are big > releases, bug fixes, custom field-office releases and the need for > continuous testing between all these, I can see how the near-automated > devops would save me having a full-time devops costs. > > If you'll indulge me: There's a real opportunity here for IBM to sell not > just to its own direct customers, but to its customers customers. To see > what I mean, put yourself in the shoes of a small-to-medium software > business. The whole time is spent selling and re-selling the business the > proposition. What helps me is not so much the marketing collateral which > convinces *me *to use BlueMix, but marketing collateral that I can use to > convince my customers that I'm in the right zone using BlueMix. > > When my customers ask "Where will my data live?" I often answer "With > Amazon". You'd be surprised how many respond, "What, the book sellers?". > I'd rather say: "Your data and business-continuity will live with IBM. Take > a look at this (imaginary) url, which explains all the details: > http://bluemix.net/once-my-developer-is-done-building-my-awesome-software-how-will-IBM-safeguard-my-data-and-keep-my-app-running-smoothly? > > " > > That's obviously a ridiculous example, but you get the idea. > > On Thursday, 8 May 2014 03:22:14 UTC+10, Dave S wrote: >> >> On Tuesday, May 6, 2014 5:29:48 PM UTC-7, duncan macneil wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I've been trying out the www.bluemix.net IBM PaaS. >>> >>> It took me a bit of digging to realise there is in fact a Python >>> runtime. But you need a buildpack. The setup is different enough from >>> Heroku to warrant this mini-HowTo: >>> >> >> >> Hey, thanks for posting this. Sounds like you'd give BlueMix a thumbs >> up; what would sway you to [or not to] go into production with it, compared >> with other hosting? >> >> /dps >> >>
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