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I’ve got some posts about experiences with Silverlight over on Launch21.com.

The Ponderings of Woodrow writes about the upcoming NetSuite IPO. He points out a couple of interesting down-sides of this offering- Even after the IPO, Larry Ellison will own a majority stake, they have only one data center and no redundancy support for their clients, etc.

I have some experience with NetSuite from the Pure days. Granted this was over a year ago, but NetSuite was a disaster. They sold us a bill of good promising that we could use their service for our ecommerce and that they were providing a flexible platform we could build on. It turned out to be the typical vapor-sale. They had no platform that you could integrate your own apps with in any meaningful way and most of their own infrastructure was immature and not ready for anything but the most narrow scenarios that they had built for. Given the market they are in, hearing things like their lack of any redundancy beyond that one data center is totally consistent with our experiences.

All that I can say is that I’m amazed that a company like that can IPO. Its pretty clear that its only kept afloat on Ellison’s money and name.