Akamai vs. BitTorrent

As well as DoubleClick, Akamai has been optimized for job with a head, instead of a tail, it is focused on the center, instead of on surburbs. Notwithstanding what service Akamai worked for the blessing of those who was in the end of " a long tail ", facilitating them{him;it} the company received access to popular sites, the money from sites.

BitTorrent as other pioneers of P2P-movement, has made the following step to decentralization of the Internet. Each client is also the server, files are broken into fragments which can be loaded from different sources, imperceptibly forcing users to give to each other channels and the data. The more popularly a file, the faster he can be delivered, as more users provides total bandwidth and more fragments of the whole file is accessible in the Network.

Thus BitTorrent shows to us a key principle the Web 2.0: the more people are used with service, the automatically he becomes better. If Akamai is compelled to add servers for improvement of quality of services each user BitTorrent comes on a party with the resources. It implicitnaja " partner architecture ", the built - in ethics of cooperation according to which service operates first of all as the reasonable intermediary connecting edges{territories} with each other and using for it resources of users.

The platform always wins against the application

In each of the previous sequences of competitive struggle Microsoft successfully played a map of a platform, interrupting her{it} the most popular applications. With help Windows Microsoft has replaced Lotus 1-2-3 on Excel, WordPerfect - on Word, and Netscape Navigator - on Internet Explorer.

However this time the conflict not between the application and a platform. It is the conflict of two platforms, each of which offers considerably excellent{different} business - model. On the one hand, a unique software supplier with the impressing base of installations strongly integrated by OS and API, giving the control over a paradigm of programming. On the other hand - system which does not have the owner, collected together with the help of set of the reports, open standards and cooperation agreements.

Windows represents deification proprietarnogo the control for program API. Netscape tried to intercept the initiative, using the same of technics{technical equipment}, as itself Microsoft uses against the competitors, but has lost. However Apache, based on open webs - standards, prospers. When the platform competes with a platform and there is a question on a choice of a platform or, if to dig more deeply, about a choice of architecture, about a choice of business - model fight is conducted on equal.

Windows was the excellent{different} decision of problems of an early epoch of the PC. She has leveled a game field for developers of applications, having decided{solved} set of problems, terzavshikh the industry. But the uniform jerk which has been carried out by forces of the unique supplier, more decision cannot be. He becomes a problem. The systems focused on the communications what the Internet - kak-platforma is, demand an opportunity of interaction at a level of applications. Until then while the supplier does not supervise both ends of each connection, his{its} opportunities on binding the user with help API are limited.

Any supplier of the decision for a Web 2.0 decided{solved} for the sake of profit to close own application on by the control over a platform, by definition cannot use its{her} strengths.

It I not to that for closing ON and creations of competitive advantages no opportunities more, but we believe, that they do not consist in the control above program API and reports. Game rules have changed. And become successful during an epoch of the Web 2.0 those who has accepted new rules can, instead of tries to use the receptions working during an epoch of the software for the PC.