Re:flawed business model (Score 1)

Basically what they are saying is: we are between the 6 euro/month line and 0 euro/month. I don't see the business advantage here.

That's nicely put, but I think they're looking at a longer game than that. They're playing for a future in which application delivery is a bulk commodity. I don't just mean space - they've already demonstrated that once you've built the data centre, space is as cheap as water - but the capacity to compute and deliver.

It's already happening, as it does in every computing medium: layers of abstraction build up to meet less expert users and more expert users create new possibilities on top of them. The kids want rails, not DBI. It's very likely that in ten years' time building your own LAMP stack equivalent will seem as sensible as as soldering together your own computer does now. There will still be people who do it, but they'll be the geniuses and the ones who live in faraday cages.

In that world, the winner is the one who determines the standard interfaces at the back and delivers the eyeballs at the front. Google is very well placed indeed.