James R Hamilton is an architect on the Microsoft Windows Live Platform team. He maintains an internal blog called Perspectives, with postings focusing on high scale services, data center operations, very large database, flash memory, service design principles, power efficiency and power management. After maintaining the internal blog for a bit more than a year he realized that about 25% of the content is public and could be posted externally. It now is, at 
Enterprises normally move slowly to new technologies but when the price advantage is close to 10x, enterprise decision makers can and will move more quickly. The weak economy provides yet a stronger push. It won’t happen at once and it won’t happen instantly but I’m convinced that in 7...Dec. 8, 2008 02:45 AM EST Reads: 2,031
