Free resources change online business rules
On the fact that 1 MIPS is now worth less than a cent , many have not paid attention, and absolutely nothing. This is quite a landmark event that perfectly demonstrates the pace of scientific and technological progress over the past 25 years.
The Core 2 Duo 2.13 GHz processor provides about 20,000 MIPS at a retail price of about $ 200 and a wholesale of about $ 180, that is, the milestone of one cent per million operations per second is taken with a margin. But the old-timers still remember the 286th processors, which in the 80s worked at clock frequencies around 6 MHz, that is, about 0.9 MIPS, and those computers were more expensive than modern ones. One processor cost almost a thousand dollars. It turns out that in 25 years 1 MIPS fell by about 100,000 times. Here it is, Moore's law in action.
The cost of storing information decreases at about the same staggering rate as the cost of computing: today the cost of one megabyte on a hard disk is no more than three cents, whereas in previous times the price of hard drives by 10-20 megabytes went by thousands of dollars.
Another industry, in which the tariffs are almost close to zero, is the transfer of data via communication channels. The cost of traffic drops exponentially.
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So, what happens? And it turns out that all the infrastructure resources of the Internet business have become available in abundance almost free of charge for every businessman. We entered the era of "free economy" with unlimited resources. Naturally, in the new conditions, businessmen should model business conditions in a completely different way, write completely different business plans. Venture investors are already discussing this problem.
Chris Anderson's book "Long Tail" , which deals with the new rules of business, was included in the list of best-selling US. One of Anderson’s theses is that the business model of a modern startup (you can say, Web 2.0 startup) must be based on the fact that resources are available for free in unlimited quantities. In no case can you save on the price of servers, traffic, hosting and other resources. Moreover, you need to strive to maximize the waste of them , that is, to use them without any savings. How this new type of business model works can be seen in the example of YouTube .
The Core 2 Duo 2.13 GHz processor provides about 20,000 MIPS at a retail price of about $ 200 and a wholesale of about $ 180, that is, the milestone of one cent per million operations per second is taken with a margin. But the old-timers still remember the 286th processors, which in the 80s worked at clock frequencies around 6 MHz, that is, about 0.9 MIPS, and those computers were more expensive than modern ones. One processor cost almost a thousand dollars. It turns out that in 25 years 1 MIPS fell by about 100,000 times. Here it is, Moore's law in action.
The cost of storing information decreases at about the same staggering rate as the cost of computing: today the cost of one megabyte on a hard disk is no more than three cents, whereas in previous times the price of hard drives by 10-20 megabytes went by thousands of dollars.
Another industry, in which the tariffs are almost close to zero, is the transfer of data via communication channels. The cost of traffic drops exponentially.
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So, what happens? And it turns out that all the infrastructure resources of the Internet business have become available in abundance almost free of charge for every businessman. We entered the era of "free economy" with unlimited resources. Naturally, in the new conditions, businessmen should model business conditions in a completely different way, write completely different business plans. Venture investors are already discussing this problem.
Chris Anderson's book "Long Tail" , which deals with the new rules of business, was included in the list of best-selling US. One of Anderson’s theses is that the business model of a modern startup (you can say, Web 2.0 startup) must be based on the fact that resources are available for free in unlimited quantities. In no case can you save on the price of servers, traffic, hosting and other resources. Moreover, you need to strive to maximize the waste of them , that is, to use them without any savings. How this new type of business model works can be seen in the example of YouTube .
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/4730/
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