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Today Michelle Greer published a recent interview we did for the Science Channel’s “NerdAbout” series. Here’s a bit of the intro to the interview: Unfortunately, no one really understands cloud computing actually is. The term gets thrown around by so many marketers it has become a meaningless cliche. Since people feel it
I was basking in vacation glory last weekend when I received an e-mail from Eric Knorr, Editor in Chief at InfoWorld. He drew my attention to his excellent December 23rd post on cloud computing. Here’s my favorite excerpt: “We don’t expect the controversy over what cloud computing really means to end anytime soon. When you’re th
Popular print media outlets are dying. It doesn’t matter if you’re a small town rag or the world’s best-known brand, progress doesn’t discriminate. How bad is it? The New York Times (which owns the Boston Globe and many regional papers) owes $400 million more than it has on hand. Both the Detroit News and the [...]
The Free Software Foundation has just announced that it has filed suit against Cisco Systems in the United States District Court (Southern District of New York) for violations of the GPL. Veteran open source lawyer Hank Jones provided me with a copy of the complaint earlier, but it is now available on the FSF web [...]
You know, BusinessWeek asked me about Apple potentially open sourcing the iPhone over a year ago. Since then: nothing out of Apple, despite mounting pressure from projects like Android that are vying for Apple’s throne. With Christmas only days away, I’ve only got one thing I want to ask Santa Jobs for, and it ain’t [...]
Hey, is your economy down? All right, bad joke, but it is the country’s current collective bellyache. 760,000 jobs lost already this year according to the Bureau of Labor. Businesses are frantically jettisoning people-weight just to stay afloat. Times are tougher than Chuck Liddell. I think I saw my old CEO in line at the soup [...]