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In common with many thousands of geeks up and down the country, I set my alarm for just before 06:00 today for the big Raspberry Pi<\/a> “announcement”.<\/p>\n

The team at Raspberry Pi had done a great job of keeping the community informed – and I was really impressed that they gave everyone a chance to hear where to buy their miniature computers at the same time. Unfortunately the Raspberry Pi announcement didn’t quite have the intended result as it effectively “slashdotted”<\/a>\u00a0the websites for both of the distributors (RS Components and Farnell).<\/p>\n

Whilst Raspberry Pi had moved their site to a static page in anticipation, the electronics retailers probably aren’t used to their products being in such demand and both buckled under the load. \u00a0Which left me wondering… I know Raspberry Pi’s goal is to support the UK electronics industry (hence the choice of distributors and not simply selling via Amazon.co.uk or similar) but surely this is a case study for how a cloud-based solution could have scaled to cope with demand? Perhaps by redirecting Raspberry Pi purchasers to a site that could scale (e.g. on Amazon Web Services), still fulfilled by RS and Farnell?<\/p>\n

[blackbirdpie url=”http:\/\/twitter.com\/edgillett\/statuses\/174746146999242753″]<\/p>\n

It didn’t help that the links given were to the main pages (not deep links). I got in during the first 5 minutes at RS and followed the instructions (“Search for Raspberry Pi, and then follow the normal shopping and checkout process.”) only to find that there was a “register your interest” page but no purchase option. A few minutes later, Raspberry Pi said on Twitter that was the wrong page, and I couldn’t find the right one from a site search. Later in the morning, reports on Twitter suggested that RS are not putting Raspberry Pi on sale until the end of the week…<\/p>\n

[blackbirdpie url=”http:\/\/twitter.com\/ghalfacree\/statuses\/174758677331451905″]<\/p>\n

[It now seems that doesn’t fit with RS Components’ Raspberry Pi press release<\/a>]<\/p>\n

With\u00a0the\u00a0mainstream news sites<\/a> and even breakfast TV now running Raspberry Pi stories, the interest will be\u00a0phenomenal\u00a0and I’m sure Raspberry Pi can sell many more devices than they can manufacture, but I can’t help feeling they’ve been badly let down by distributors who didn’t take their warnings seriously.<\/p>\n

[blackbirdpie url=”https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Raspberry_Pi\/status\/174747109046755328″]<\/p>\n

Or, as one open source advocate saw it:<\/p>\n

[blackbirdpie url=”http:\/\/twitter.com\/opensourcerer\/statuses\/174757001908322304″]<\/p>\n

With any luck, my success at registering interest from RS at about 06:03 this morning will have worked. Failing that, I guess I’ll have to wait a little longer…<\/p>\n

[Update 07:49 – added link to RS Components press release]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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