Blogarithms
Doug Kaye's thoughts on web services, web hosting and managed services.
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No Show. I was in San Francisco today for a consulting gig, so I took the opportunity to stop by Moscone Center and check out the Web 2001 Conference and Expo. What a shock.
A year ago, even after the April 14, 2000 crash, if you ran a "web" conference at Moscone, it would be packed with both exhibitors and attendees. But not this year. I walked in at 5pm on the first day. Just about the time that people in SOMA might show up after work. The lobby was empty. No one--literally no one--in the registration line.
So I went downstairs to the exhibit hall. Excuse me. The exhibits aren't in the exhibit hall at all. The entire show is in one of the Moscone Center's meeting rooms. Probably no more than 40 exhibitors, and the largest booth is the one that supports the other exhibitors. (e.g., Sign up for next year's show!)
Perhaps to attract people, they were serving free hot dogs, pretzels and beer. What can I say...even the hot dogs were small.
Posted Wednesday, September 05, 2001 11:53:42 PM 
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MSPs by the Max. This must be my day for Max Smetannikov accolades. In addition to Max's good story about CDN reseller channels, InteractiveWeek has just published Max's excellent multi-part series on managed service providers. MSPs in Transition includes sections covering Loudcloud, Sitesmith, Cordiant, the failure of XUMA, the coopetition between MSPs and utility software vendors, and the the shift of some MSPs into management of enterprise applications. A good read for insiders and buyers of managed services alike.
I was CTO of NextMonet.com (a XUMA customer) and later a strategic technology consultant to XUMA. Because of the latter realtionship, I can't tell all that I know, even though the company is kaput. But I can tell you this: They could have made it. They had enough capital (at one time), and they had some good people. But they tried to succeed at too many things in a world where it's difficult to do just one thing well. Perhaps too much big vision and not enough reality and focus. But like I said, the opportunity was theirs to lose.
Posted Wednesday, September 05, 2001 10:42:54 PM
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CDN Battle Stations. In another good article entitled Speedera Closes Ranks With Partners, Max Smetannikov of InteractiveWeek probes the battle between Akamai and Speedera for the reseller channel. Buyers of CDN services (not just vendors) should follow discussions such as these, as they provide valuable insights into the inter-vendor debates and differentiations. Although this particular article takes a mostly anti-Akamai approach, I continue to be impressed with Max's coverage of Internet infrastructure.
Posted Wednesday, September 05, 2001 10:18:09 PM
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