snowdeal.org > ex machina

ex machina

adding fuel to the belief that making money of access to public wireless lans is a losing proposition, sputnik decides to not charge for access to the sputnik network:

"Sputnik is relinquishing its plans to eventually charge subscribers for using the Sputnik Network. After a lot of careful analysis, we have not been able to overcome growing doubts about the long-term financial prospects for paid subscriber 802.11 networks. Eight months ago we thought a "bottoms-up" subscriber network was a killer idea, but the landscape has changed a lot since then." "We also appreciate the bug fixes and patches that community developers have contributed to our code base. We are committed to continuing to support you by providing, among other things, free authentication and roaming services."

so where's the money? sputnik aims to, "focus exclusively on being a product company, with an emphasis on the enterprise software market." while it's certainly smart to recognize that it's going to be tough to pay the bills with subscription revenues from mom-and-pop public hotspots, it's still hard to see this as a positive strategic move. i mean, this thing called "the enterprise" is a tough market full of people who like to buy from brands like cisco.

bookmark: del.icio.us ::digg it ::furl ::reddit ::yahoo ::

4/29/2002 09:27:00 PM 0 comments

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

[ rhetoric ]

“"it is hard to be brave," said piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a Very Small Animal." rabbit, who had begun to write very busily, looked up and said: "it is because you are a very small animal that you will be Useful in the adventure before us."”

the complete tales & poems of winnie the pooh

[ about ]

this site chronicles the continuing adventures of my son, odin, who was unexpectedly born on the fourth of july at 25 weeks gestation, weighing 1 pound 7 ounces.

he's quite a fighter and you can always send him a postcard to the most current address listed here if you're inspired by his adventures. see the postcard project/google maps mashup to see a map of the postcards.

if you're new, you can browse the archives to catch up. and don't forget to watch a few movies that i made while we were in the neonatal intensive care unit. or if you want the abridged version and you can find a copy, you can read about his adventures in the november 2005 issue of parents magazine.

[ search ]

[ outbound ]