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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure.

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Dude, Akanda Is Tying The Cloud Together Like A Rug

InfoChachkie

The dawn of personal computers by home hobbyists created the perfect environment for software sharing, yet it was young Bill Gates who convinced that nascent market that software development costs money and needed to be purchased, just like hardware. The earliest mega-scale web services (e.g., Six Reasons Why The Time Is Now.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups. Mentions - Marc Andreessen's - The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet A Level 1 platform's apps run elsewhere, and call into the platform via a web services API to draw on data and services -- this is how Flickr does it.

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