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Dude, Akanda Is Tying The Cloud Together Like A Rug

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In the mid 1960’s, large mainframe manufacturers, such as IBM, Burroughs and Honeywell, provided complete IT solutions. IBM might not have offered the best printers, but buyers had no choice because early mainframe vendors provided a closed set of proprietary technologies. The earliest mega-scale web services (e.g.,

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack. Platform cloud players like Salesforce.com provide compute resources so that third parties can build applications that integrate with its core product. Facebook is a “platform cloud&# provider, too. Not Google.