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Zumasys Buys jBASE Database

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Irvine-based Zumasys , a developer of cloud computing products for the business market, said today that it has acquired the jBase database product from Temenos. jBase is a cloud-based, database product which connects applications built on the Pick operating system with SQL Server, Oracle, and the cloud.

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Why You Should Make Your Competitors Your Frenemies

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He has been able to take complicated topics like cloud computing and boil them down into pithy messages like “the end of software&# as depicted in the simple logo to the right. It emphasizes both cloud computing and salesforce.com’s differentiation – they’re not “software.&#. Them vs. Us.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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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. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP.

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UnVenture Capitalists: Seek Investors Aligned With Your Interests, Not Their Egos

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It was the fact that the Seven-Up Company defined its product by describing what it was not , via the “UnCola” label. Because of the advancements in cloud computing by companies like RightScale and open source software such as MySQL , the costs to create a scalable web service have decreased by a factor of ten since the year 2000.

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UnVenture Capitalists: Seek Investors Aligned With Your Interests, Not Their Egos

InfoChachkie

It was the fact that the Seven-Up Company defined its product by describing what it was not , via the “UnCola” label. Because of the advancements in cloud computing by companies like RightScale and open source software such as MySQL , the costs to create a scalable web service have decreased by a factor of ten since the year 2000.

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

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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. Transform your business, budgets, and service levels with Oracle Database 11g Release 2. Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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When I started my first company in 1999 we spent more than $2 million on technology infrastructure including Sun servers & Solaris operating system, Oracle databases, EMC storage, load balancers, app servers, back-up devices, disk mirrors and on and on. And Wikipedia is deflationary meaning it takes the costs of production to almost zero.

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