Why the open source business model is a failure
Open source software companies must move to the Cloud and add proprietary code to their products to succeed. The current business model is recipe for failure.
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Why IBM will win the war with Amazon Web Services
Amazon dominates the Cloud, but IBM, strengthened by its SoftLayer acquisition, has unleashed a marketing campaign that fires on all cylinders. Whether IBM's Ccloud is, in fact, better may matter less than Amazon's ability to challenge a company that's made many competitors crumble over the past 102 years.
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Who are the real winners in the Microsoft-Oracle deal?
The new Microsoft-Oracle partnership benefits both companies, as Oracle gets access to Azure and Microsoft can finally license Java. Will the deal have any effect on either company's enterprise customers?
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What to do if your cloud provider disappears
Software developer Christopher Shockey saw the first signs of trouble in late 2008. A sales rep who had always represented Web application development provider Coghead was now calling on behalf of Coghead's much larger rival Salesforce.com.