Bridging the Gap to the Open Hybrid Cloud with PaaS
June 7, 2013
Grazed from RedHat. Author: Ashesh Badani.
About a decade ago, my wife and I moved from Philadelphia to San Francisco. We had both finished with graduate school in the Northeast and we decided it was time to strike out west. In retrospect, showing up in the the Bay Area in 2001 may not have been well-timed…but what did we know! The folly of youth. In any case, it was still hard to find an apartment though I am guessing a lot easier than right now. We found Noe Valley to be a great neighborhood and moved in fast. And it was especially quick given all we seemed to have brought from our university 1 BR apartment was a 4 person scratched-up round table, an old TV, and a couple of mattresses.
So, we figured we needed a couch at the very least. We went to a furniture store and found one that we really liked. And then the sales person said we had a choice. We could buy the really nice, handcrafted, leather sofa from Italy at about $5000. It would be customized so we could pick the color and grade of leather, and it would show up in about a couple of months according to our specs…
Or, we could buy a Chinese replica of the design. Only instead of nice leather, the fabric choice was suede for the replica. And it was only available in a pale yellow color. But, it was a fraction of the price. And it could be in our apartment within a week. That was a really easy choice. Faced with the same dilemma today, I would likely have the ability to wait it out for the exact sofa we wanted. It wouldn’t be a burning need (we don’t spend our time eating in front of a TV!). We would take advantage of financial flexibility on the cost. And the need for durability and quality would trump the convenience and price…
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