Month of July, 2009

There are many websites devoted to web hosting reviews. Each of these sites offers something slightly different. Some focus on listing a large number of hosts in a comprehensive database. Others tout user reviews that grade the web hosts on a scale from best to worst. Yet others slim down the list to a ''Top 10'' format - listing just the top performers in website hosting. Using these hosting review sites along with forums devoted to web hosting can help form a strong opinion on a web hosting company.

In a recent article in Ad Age’s DigitalNext, Warren Lee’s article entitled "What Sank Veoh and Joost? Too Much Cash Too Soon" suggests that young companies raising too much money in a short amount of time is apt to cause them to misuse their cash. This, in turn, ignites a cascading effect of bad business choices leading to near certain failure.

On Monday, Microsoft introduced the new Office 2010 and Office Web Apps.

Google’s browser-based Apps products and its new Chrome OS obviously put a lot of pressure on Microsoft urging it to come up with something new. Microsoft responded to these challenges with the introduction of its Microsoft Office 2010, which is a free, web based version of Microsoft office.

HostReview very recently had an opportunity to speak with Mr. Horstmann, and asked him a few questions pertaining to his insights, and relevant to where our industry appears to be headed.