On Web Hosting and Vendor Neutrality
Walter has experience with dozens of commercial web hosting companies. He also sells web hosting.
His claim of "vendor neutrality" does not mean that all web hosting companies are the same, or are equally good in all respects regardless of the application. Vendor neutrality means "to be willing and able to work with any hosting company without economic prejudice." It doesn’t mean that they all cost the same to work with. Some web hosting services are simply faster, easier and more reliable than others. Some compete on performance and others compete on cost.
Vendor neutrality means not letting clients unknowningly become captives to a particular host. There is a good case to be made for hosted web solutions that keep the client data captive to varying degrees but business owners need unbiased information to make good decisions.
Can you explain things so the rest of us can understand?
Decision makers do not need to know how something works. They need to understand the competitive advantages and liabilities, the case for contingency planning for technology/vendor decisions.
A goal of software design is often to find "the simplest thing that could possibly work", but no simpler.
Likewise, Walter strives for the simplest meaningful explanation, but no simpler.
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