What To Do About The Shortage Of IP Addresses

Posted by jerry as technology

For years now, we have heard about the impending end of the Internet as we run out of IP addresses. For a while, it was so persistent and frequent, it became background noise to me. The only way to save the Internet is to move to IPv6, the story goes.

I’ve spent a lot of the past decade in various networking, programming and technology management roles, and dabbled a bit in web hosting work. One thing that is obvious to me is that we are not going to be moving wholesale to IPv6 any time soon.

I was surprised to see an article the other day bringing up the dreaded doomsday of the Internet, predicting that we have 3 years until the end.

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More on why Google will probably not buy Sprint

Posted by jerry as Uncategorized

So, I thought of a few more issues with this.  The report that prompted the acquisition rumors of Sprint, notes a cancelled partnership with ClearWire.  Why would Sprint back out?  Google is going to buy them, of course. 

Well, not quite.  They may well back out because they were being ACQUIRED, but not necessarily by Google.  BT apparently has it’s sights set on Sprint as well.  So, it’s possible that the source of the rumor is a tie up between BT and Sprint. 

At the very least, this is likely to result in a bidding war for Sprint between Google and BT.  In that event, the $50B that I cited below is probably more like $55B or $60B.  That just makes the deal much less likely to go in Google’s favor.