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Google's Flash Mistake

March 30, 2010 – 10:21 pm

Google made a mistake supporting Flash on Chrome and Chrome OS. A better solution may have been to allow customer to decide to install a plug-in. But content developers need to be pushed to HTML5, CSS, Javascript. Chrome OS was a “pure play” statement that “open” is the future of operating systems and the web, [...]

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What does it mean that Dell chose Joyent to power the cloud?

March 24, 2010 – 2:34 pm

Today is a very important day for Joyent, and for software development. Joyent recognized early on that Web development was unlocking transformative new capabilities for software developers. We were founded with the idea of building applications to make business more productive, and we knew that Joyent needed infrastructure that could scale quickly to satisfy user [...]

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Joyent Raises Institutional Money: Why We Did It

November 17, 2009 – 3:31 pm

Today we announced that we recently closed a round of funding from Intel Capital. As entrepreneurs who founded and nurtured Joyent since 2004, and with a company that has funded itself entirely from revenues from selling products to our customers (with the exception of early seed capital put in by Peter Thiel, myself, and other [...]

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Introducing Joyent China

October 28, 2009 – 3:01 am

Joyent, Inc. is very happy to announce that today we are beginning operations within mainland China. http://www.joyent.com.cn Today, we have opened a limited service of the Joyent Cloud to customers within mainland China and will be opening to the general public later this year. We are happy to be working with Intel and the Qinhuangdao [...]

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Is the customer always right? No.

September 5, 2009 – 11:02 pm

Sometimes the customer isn’t right. Sometimes they think they can pay you some money, never enough, and abuse your team. You have to stick up for the team. I recently sent this email to someone who wanted us to reset a password because they had requested the reset via an insecure web form. They went [...]

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Phones to Challenge iPhone

August 24, 2009 – 1:50 am

For the past month I’ve been using four different cell phones behind the excellent Google Voice service. One phone number, four phones. The four phones are the Apple iPhone 3G (iPhone OS), the Nokia N97 (Symbian), the HTC G1 (Android), and the Palm Pre (Web OS). I use the iPhone on the AT&T network, the [...]

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Joyent Sells Strongspace and Bingodisk to ExpanDrive

August 13, 2009 – 5:00 pm

Joyent was one of the first companies to offer storage as Strongspace (Summer, 2005). Strongspace was a multi-user SFTP drive in the sky. A piece of trivia: Strongspace was the first product to use ZFS in production (ouside of Sun). We introduced Bingodisk in the Fall of 2006 to provide dead-simple WebDAV-based storage. It was [...]

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Why Netbooks are Deadly for Apple and Microsoft

August 11, 2009 – 5:45 pm

Whether or not Apple releases a Netbook (=sub $500 fullish keyboard portable), this class of device is ultimately deadly to the likes of Apple and Microsoft. Why? Netbooks aren’t mini-powerful laptops. The are powerful browser-app platforms and they accelerate the adoption of browser-based applications. No one (really) uses a netbook to run Photoshop, or even [...]

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Why Apple (Probably) Had to Reject Google Voice for iPhone

August 3, 2009 – 8:29 am

I just installed Google Voice on my T-Mobile Google Phone. (I’m sure that’s not the technical description of the model. I think it’s HTC something or other.) What stands out immediately is that Google Voice takes over the phone and does all the calling. All of it. When I call people from the phone, they [...]

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100,000 Joyent Accelerators

July 2, 2009 – 7:55 pm

We just delivered the 100,000th Joyent Accelerator to a customer. That’s a big milestone. Congratulations to the Joyent team. And congratulations to our customers who are doing such interesting things with Joyent Accelerators, everyone from Prince (the artist known as), to all the Facebook developers, to the many enterprise shops removing the barriers of IT [...]

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