Re: FREE hosting platforms with PostgreSQL, Java SDK, Tomcat, ecc.?

John, Craig,

how do you explain the services of file hosting? By those services millions
of persons free-load pictures, videos, text, GBs of data, etc.. I think that
what I asked is quite similar, that is the use of a piece of remote hardware
where to have free software installed. The difference in my opinion is in
the fact that I implicitly asked also for the use of a free operating
system, but not in the hardware or in its maintenance.

On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 3:56 AM, John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com> wrote:
On 08/06/11 4:40 PM, David Johnston wrote:

> The bottom line is I would not expect to find any individual or company
> willing or able to offer such a service, to the general public, for free.
> And it is a service you are requesting as opposed to a product like
> PostgreSQL. A product is more likely to be improved by the people using it
> compared to a service, and those improvements are likely to make it back
> into the original.
>

indeed, especially a service like hosting that has significant ongoing hard
costs involved... a colocated server requires power, air conditioning,
network traffic and transit fees, management, physical security, and the
cost of the hardware itself, which has typically a 3-5 year lifespan (in 3
years, newer hardware can do so much more work its often not cost effective
to keep the old hardware online).

On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 4:25 AM, Craig Ringer <ringerc(at)ringerc(dot)id(dot)au> wrote:

> On 7/08/2011 1:08 AM, Scott Ribe wrote:
>
>> After open source for the software, we will wait for open resource for the
>>> hardware (this is just a first example http://www.arduino.cc/, even if
>>> of different nature).
>>>
>> While the plans may be free, the actual hardware sure as hell won't be.
>>
>> A bit OT, but....
>
> Arduino is not so much a "will" as an "is". It's in wide-spread use and has
> even been adopted for the base of the new Android peripheral development
> system - the Android Open Accessory Development Kit.
>
> http://developer.android.com/**guide/topics/usb/adk.html<http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/usb/adk.html>
>
> I struggle to see any connection between Arduino and PostgreSQL, though.
> They're very different kinds of free/open source, as software "is" its
> specification and can be distributed at no cost, but you can't just download
> a hardware device and use it.
>
> --
> Craig Ringer
>