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Valdis Kletnieks wrote: >there's going to be *plenty* of room for small >flexible operators in niche markets, at both >ends of the pipe. Agreed. Adding some substance to those words, see: http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=21312808 Frank A. Coluccio DTI Consulting --------- On Fri May 13 9:03 , [email protected] sent: >On Fri, 13 May 2005 11:23:14 BST, [email protected] said: > >> Their impact can't be measured because it spread out into niche >> markets. Like blogs and wikis and all those photo sites. >> And my company's network with 1,000 customers and PoPs in >> 20 countries all doing 100% ASP traffic. ASPs businesses are >> thriving. However, the crystal ball gazers who hyped them >> back in the late 90's just got it all wrong because they >> thought ASPs would displace MS-Office desktops and SAP >> installations. > >Exactly what *I* predicted - there's going to be *plenty* of room for >small flexible operators in niche markets, at both ends of the pipe. > >In fact, there's almost certainly money to be made by leveraging the fact that >Comcast wants to do 4M/384K/$25 - the number of companies making money from >finding innovative ways to sell you electricity is *far* outweighed by the >number of companies finding new ways to make money based on the fact that >somebody *else* is selling you electricity. > >The only people who need to worry are the ones whos business model is "We made >money selling 'just pipes' in that market 5 years ago, and we're doing it now, >so it will still be OK 5-10 years from now". 98% of *those* companies are in >for a rude awakening. ;) > |