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ReadWriteWeb discusses the state of software innovation in India

January 22, 2009 Business

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ReadWriteWeb recently ran a post about the state of India’s innovation engine.  I’ve posted a clip here, but click through to read the whole thing:
State of Innovation in India: 2009 – ReadWriteWeb
That Big Wide-Open SaaS Opportunity
Indian start-ups that dreamed of creating the next SAP or Oracle faced massive hurdles on the sales and [...]

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Amazon continues its cloud computing build out

November 18, 2008 Business

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With the release of CloudFront, Amazon continues to build out a full selection of cloud computing offerings.  With CloudFront even small developers can gain the power of a global content distribution network (much like Akamai).  Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO, explains the service in this post:
Expanding the Cloud: Amazon CloudFront – All Things Distributed
Today [...]

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Thoughts from Dreamforce (Salesforce Developer Conference 2008)

November 10, 2008 Business

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Last week I was at the Salesforce developer conference, Dreamforce 2008.  Most of the significant news (linked below) to emerge from the Moscone Center was tied to the theme of ‘Cloud Computing‘.  This included announcements related to the availability of Facebook integration, the ability for customers to host their websites on [...]

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Tim O’Reilly discusses web 2.0 and cloud computing

October 26, 2008 Cloud Computing

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Over the last few months I’ve been asked, a lot, by some smart folks on how web 2.0 and cloud computing are defined, and what their impact will be on technology as a whole.  Since both terms are used very loosely, and often times by marketers who aren’t knowledgeable in either field, web [...]

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Docstock rollouts out several enhancements for document sharing web application

August 6, 2008 office2.0

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Docstoc, which debuted late last year, has rolled out several interesting features for it’s cloud based document sharing platform. The new features focus on the ability to upload and manage private documents on Docstoc, something that wasn’t possible previously. Competitor Scribd has had this feature since the beginning, so Docstoc is [...]

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Who will own the cloud?

August 6, 2008 Cloud Computing

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A very robust discussion about could computing is going on over at the O’Reilly Radar, associated with this post:
Open Source and Cloud Computing – O’Reilly Radar
I’ve been worried for some years that the open source movement might fall prey to the problem that Kim Stanley Robinson so incisively captured in Green [...]

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