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]]> http://diversity.net.nz/why-would-you-do-it/2008/05/13/comment-page-1/#comment-4014 Andrew Biss Tue, 13 May 2008 11:45:01 +0000 http://diversity.net.nz/?p=1072#comment-4014 USD100m is a big pile of cash; I am sure there are better uses than buying servers. Fortunately, most ISVs have more sense and would not buy 4 servers, let along 40,000. Provisioning server instances on Amazon EC2, or another cloud platform, is the only solution for “the rest of us”. USD100m is a big pile of cash; I am sure there are better uses than buying servers. Fortunately, most ISVs have more sense and would not buy 4 servers, let along 40,000. Provisioning server instances on Amazon EC2, or another cloud platform, is the only solution for “the rest of us”.

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