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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

I thought the analogy was preposterous back in 2006-2007 but it has become obvious. All businesses need to have access to the scale, cost structure, and flexibility that the Amazons, Googles, and Facebooks of the world have built internally. I thought the analogy was preposterous back in 2006-2007 but it has become obvious.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. As I write these words I’m aware that I could practically change the words AOL and Facebook for much of this section and with a few factual tweaks it might not be noticeable to the reader which of the firms I was talking about. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65