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Cloud Computing is Not All Sunshine Yet

Startup Professionals Musings

Cloud computing is all the rage in the startup world these days. A typical definition (from Wikipedia) is that “cloud computing, is Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software and information are provided to computers and other devices on-demand, like a public utility.”

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Understanding How Profits are Shifting Across the Computing Value Chain

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There’s a famous scene in Pirates of Silicon Valley (a movie that chronicled the origins of Microsoft and Apple) in which Bill Gates is meeting with IBM executives. The IBM executives agree to license software from Microsoft because “there’s no money in software anyways.” Will profits shift again? If so, why?

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The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

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They also come in many different types from syndication formats like RSS and Atom to custom API streams. cloud computing, open APIs, and other major advances, the ideas in software these days are increasingly coming from the consumer world and then pushing their way into the enterprise realm. . | There are others as well.

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