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Slow and failed web services cost e-business $4.35B a year according to ZonaResearch http://www.zonaresearch.com/info/press/99-jun30.htm and new companies and coalitions are rushing to provide the sort of worldwide content caching that may recapture this lost revenue. These companies are receiving great media attention and are even being called the pin-ups of the e-commerce/Internet revolution. We will argue here that instead of representing things to come, they are examples of the exploitation of a temporary niche awkwardness in the path to Internet infrastructure commoditization and distributed e-markets. The future belongs to the market makers in the storage and compute online commodities markets but the current players still have a chance to get there.
By: Chris Kenyon
Published in: IEEE Computer , volume 34, (no 11), pages 128-30 in 2001
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