Croquet 2 Play

The “Cheap Revolutionaries” cover story on the current Forbes magazine is a must read. Here are two gems:

Why buy computers when you can use Amazon’s instead?
Rent-a-Disk - Forbes.com

Cirpack, a unit of Thomson in France, generates $30 million a year selling Linux-based switches. Starting with a single four-processor IBM Linux server that costs only $10,000, Cirpack adds its own software and charges up to $2 million for a switch that can handle 250,000 phone calls simultaneously. (Traditional switches with equivalent power cost $10 million and take up 500 square meters of floor space.) Carriers in Europe are using Cirpack’s cheap switches to offer “triple play” service–phone, Internet and TV–for $40 a month.
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