William A. Sempf

As the title of this article is The Economics of Cloud Computing and we need to talk dollars and cents. There are three ways to look at this. When I was a student at The Ohio State University, I learned an important lesson about money. There is the way that the business owners view it, the way that the economists view it, and the way that the accountants view it. The way the business owners see it is as cash in hand - finance. The economists view it as effect on the community - economics. The accountants have a big list of rules. They view it that way. You all know how accountants are. A recent article in Open Source Magazine [1] - heavily quoted - points out some numbers realities, as shown here: Purchase - on Premise $ 15,000 - Quad-Core Servers ( 5 x 3,000 each ) $ 7... (more)

Shameless Self Promotion

I have set up a number of conglomeration sites in the last week, which I thought I would share with the interested.  One relates to books, one to articles, and one to speaking. The first is FiledBy, at http://www.filedby.com/author/bill_sempf/.  It is a managed site with books of mine that are still in print.  Neat concept, and I look forward to using it. The second is SpeakerSite.  Set ... (more)

Live blogging a XAML project with CodePlex - handling failure

I bet you all think that I mean failing at writing  the game, didn't ya?  Hmm?  Ha!  Not so fast my friend, I mean handling the last requirement in the project - failing the press the correct letter before the letterbox hits the bottom of the screen. So what I want to do is check on timer click of the letter has hit the bottom, and if it has then fire off a new message (Oh no instead of W... (more)

The Economics of Cloud Computing

In the mid-nineties, new directions in managerial accounting made cost center bookkeeping popular in large organizations. In this model, departments within an organization traded almost like a miniature economy, with some departments earning a net gain for the company and some departments delivering a net loss. Cost and Profit Centers The profit centers - as those who earned money are cal... (more)

Everett : the Next Visual Studio .NET

In February of this year, Microsoft changed up everything for the first time in ten years. With the launch of Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework, Microsoft drastically altered the way developers in the average environment did their job. Few of us are terribly willing to launch a major development effort in a Version 1.0 environment. Though the .NET Framework has been in development ... (more)