XdbE is about sharing and this concept is so important that it makes a perfect sense to make it more and more explicit.
First of all who shares what.
- Online Communities share their data sending it to XdbE.
- XdbE DS and RS operators share their bandwidth and CPU resources
- Developers share their knowledge and experise creating applications based on XdbE dataset
Now why would anyone want to share? What XdbE benefits are?
- Online Communities just by the virtue of participating and sharing their data first of all get exponential exposure of their data but much more importantly they have immediate local access to the data sent by all other participating communities
- XdbE DS operators are getting local access to the whole XdbE database thus having an excellent opportunity to develop their own products and services based on XdbE data set
- XdbE RS operators are getting enormous amount of feel-good factor combined with good karma for just knowing that their participation makes the Internet a better place
- Developers are getting a unique opportunity to connect their applications to reliable, fast and constantly updated load-balancing source of data
But what are the costs?
Let us consider the cost of the single heaviest element of XdbE Network, namely DS. The cost of setting up and running one XdbE DS should not exceed an average cost of a single dedicated server with perhaps software setup costs added. Altogether setting up a DS is within limits of several thousands US$ and estimated monthly running costs are just about a couple of hundreds US$ and for those who just want to do something good for the internet community there is always an option of running a simple XdbE RS which is even cheaper. For an Online Community one shall add a setup cost of DSC and DSS software but by all means total costs related to XdbE functionality are insignificant compare to total running costs of any online community. For developers apart from setting up pre-programmed XdbE DSC or alternatively writing their own one thee are no other costs at all.
With so many parties benefiting from XdbE it is bound to provide a substantial change in Web 2.0 infrastructure ultimately benefiting end-user as well.