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Monthly Archives: December 2009

In a world run by lawyers, wither the cloud?

It always cracks me up when I read what companies will and won’t do because of their legal team.   We all know that IP and privacy law is immensely important, but I think we lose sight of the big picture when we presume that innovation can be stunted by legalese.
Case in point, Mike Vizard from [...]

Email Service Guide Review: Power Panel Makes Google Apps More Complete

Email Service Guide is an online guide to email service providers, including reviews, comparisons, and a database of available providers. ESG is also the premier source of news articles relating to the email field. Recently ESG published a review of LTech’s Power Panel for Google Apps. Here is an overview of the article:
While Google Apps [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-13

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Microsoft embracing open-source web platforms (finally)

Cloud news of the day goes to Microsoft.  Saw this tweet (thanks @mdesilver)
James Urquhart (@jamesurquhart)
12/2/09 7:21 PM
RT @llangit: RT @mhindsbo: #Azure supports .NET languages, such as C# + VB + Java, PHP, Python and now also Ruby http://tinyurl.com/yfs7cn6
James Urquhart from eWeek reports that Azure is now supporting Ruby on Rails.
This is exciting – you now have a major platform [...]

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