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The opencloud.org Manifesto (always spelled upper case M) is such a buzzword-laden puff piece that I hesitate to even mention it again after my advice to ignore manifestos (see my blog post of last ... More >
Elizabeth Montalbano of IDG did a great job March 26 breaking a story about a coming "Open Cloud Manifesto." Her source was the blog of Steve Martin of Microsoft. Steve manages .NET, Azure, BizT... More >
Do you want your compute power on your desktop? Or in the cloud? The project that began this debate started 40 years ago next month. Some might find it ironic if the anniversary turns out to mark the... More >
I have held off commenting on the rumored IBM acquisition of Sun for the formal offer, and a chance to read all the juicy SEC material that explains when who talked to whom about what before the deal... More >
A research study sponsored by Novell but conducted independently by IDC in February 2009 confirms the continued replacement of UNIX by Linux on servers. This dovetails with but is different from ID... More >
My recent blog post about Agresso taking on SAP in ERP (you might have thought I was just whining about “no news” in that post) led me to a series of ERP reports by a group called Panorama Consult... More >
On March 6 I blogged that there wasn’t enough news in the information technology (IT) world about which to comment. Less than a week later there is so much going on I think I should learn how “to ... More >
Jim Zemlin of the Linux Foundation and representatives of Sun and Microsoft will debate the future of their "respective" operating systems in April 2009. That's Linux, Unix and Windows, respectivel... More >
I think that there is a measurable lowering of news-release volume because of the economic downturn. That's a killer for bloggers like me because basically we comment on the news. Hopefully it... More >
If you attended the Red Hat middleware virtual conference recently, you later received an offer of some free Forrester research on the subject, specifically a 2008 report, Application Server Qualit... More >
On March 2, Vinnie Mirchandani interpreted some Forrester data to conclude that the enterprise software market isn't really that consolidated. I disagree with that interpretation because it leave... More >
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