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October 16, 2005
Server costs of a popular web app
Both desktop and web apps have their place depending on lots of things. One thing I hadn't considered as a small ISV though was the cost of getting popular. Nick Bradbury has a good quote.
As an aside, keep in mind how expensive it is to manage a web application. Think of all the great shareware programs you've used that were developed by one person, and then consider how that one person would handle the server costs of a popular web app. As it stands, the investment required to maintain a web-based app is greater (often far greater) than it is for a downloadable shareware product.http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2005/10/web_201_release.html
Posted by mikel at October 16, 2005 01:03 PM
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