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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups. However, these platforms could be interesting for prototype and pilot solutions. The other conclusion was that you need to have a migration path from the platform.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

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.

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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., The earliest mega-scale web services (e.g.,

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Why.Net???

Alon Schwartz

Man, sometimes I’d rather say we developed the site in Assembly and I’m sure I’d get less raised eyebrows. The concept of LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySql, PHP) VS. Microsoft must change. Can you imagine group of CTOs that hire only white developers vs. group of CTOs that hire only black developers? I rest my case.

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Why.Net???

Alon Schwartz

Man, sometimes I’d rather say we developed the site in Assembly and I’m sure I’d get less raised eyebrows. The concept of LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySql, PHP) VS. Microsoft must change. Can you imagine group of CTOs that hire only white developers vs. group of CTOs that hire only black developers? I rest my case.

LAMP 40
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Why.Net???

Alon Schwartz

Man, sometimes I’d rather say we developed the site in Assembly and I’m sure I’d get less raised eyebrows. The concept of LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySql, PHP) VS. Microsoft must change. Can you imagine group of CTOs that hire only white developers vs. group of CTOs that hire only black developers? I rest my case.

PHP 40
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Interview with Mark Sylvester, Likeabilitee

socalTECH

They had been recommended as a preferred provider for Facebook application developers, but it didn't work. Every good entrepreneur dreams really big, and we're planning on having 1 percent of 37 million brands on our platform. Socialtech is an enterprise wiki, social business platform in Palo Alto. We're using Elastic Beanstalk.