Moving to Rackspace Cloud

// November 29th, 2009 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Been trying out the Rackspace Cloud lately, both Cloud Servers and Cloud Sites (previously known as Mosso) and I must admit that I am impressed.

At Syntesio we used to rent managed servers from Rackspace, and their quality and service was (almost) impeccable. I’ve used their live-chat support a few times the last couple of weeks and they still reply within minutes and provides reasonably good answers. Feels a lot better to have our services hosted with a company that you can actually talk to.

Over the next few weeks we will be moving most of our (both Syntesio’s and Nebulose’s) servers and websites over to the Rackspace Cloud.

The two big reasons for the move is that it will not only gives us increased performance and scalability, but also cut our costs quite a bit. Money which will be better spent on product development and marketing.

Android Phones Age Quickly

// November 7th, 2009 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Stumbled upon some interesting news today. As you might know, Android OS 2.0 is right around the corner with a lot of new interesting features. There is one big problem, however: if you are currently using an Android powered phone, chances are that you will not be able to upgrade to the new release. Even if you buy a new Android phone just released it might not support it.

It seems that most vendors using Android to power their phones are not planning on supporting the upgrade. For example, Samsung claims that neither their first Android powered phone, nor the just-released Galaxy Spica will ever support Android 2.0. SonyEricsson has no roadmap wither for upgrading the new Xperia X10.

HTC owners seems to be able to upgrade to Android 2.0 though, but not all versions of their early hardware will support the new OS. At least this means that not all current Android owners are left out in the cold.

I can’t help comparing this with the iPhone. First generation iPhone buyers who got their phone back in 2007 can still run the latest version of the iPhone OS, currently 3.1.2, without any problems what so ever.

This is a perfect example of the pro’s and con’s of a closed vs. open platform – a subject debated enough for me to not bother writing anything more about it tonight.

However. I have no doubt in my mind that in a few years, my iPhone will run a much more up-to-date OS, be much more usable and a lot more attractive/valuable in the second hand market than any Android-powered phone that is available today.

Time will tell.