Comments on: JumpBox Asks Users to Pay for Convenience http://gigaom.com/2008/03/20/jumpbox-asks-users-to-pay-for-convenience/ Tracking the Internet Evolution Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:06:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: C. G. Brown http://gigaom.com/2008/03/20/jumpbox-asks-users-to-pay-for-convenience/#comment-870534 C. G. Brown Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:23:18 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=11885#comment-870534 <p>Another convenient model that hasn't received a lot of press for software development tools such as Trac and Subversion is application hosting. Companies such as my company, ProjectLocker, have been doing this for several years, and adding value through proprietary configuration tools. With a virtual machine, you stil lhave to incur system administration and backup costs, which either raises your cost of ownership or takes time away from what your team is focused on -- writing great software.</p> <p>For companies that need to run all applications in-house, solutions like JumpBox are great, but for companies that are comfortable running software outside of their office in secured data centers and accessing it over secured channels, solutions like ProjectLocker have no installation or upgrade time or cost and are easier to configure and administer.</p> Another convenient model that hasn’t received a lot of press for software development tools such as Trac and Subversion is application hosting. Companies such as my company, ProjectLocker, have been doing this for several years, and adding value through proprietary configuration tools. With a virtual machine, you stil lhave to incur system administration and backup costs, which either raises your cost of ownership or takes time away from what your team is focused on — writing great software.

For companies that need to run all applications in-house, solutions like JumpBox are great, but for companies that are comfortable running software outside of their office in secured data centers and accessing it over secured channels, solutions like ProjectLocker have no installation or upgrade time or cost and are easier to configure and administer.

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