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Month: June 2013

  • The End of Software; The Fall of IBM

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    The computer industry goes through technology cycles. With each cycle, a new crop of companies emerge that dominate the industry. The winners in the previous cycle usually fade into oblivion. Who remembers Burroughs, Digital Equipment, Wang, Prime Computer or Control Data? The leaders in this cycle are cloud companies, Facebook, Google and Amazon. The winners…

  • Microsoft And Oracle Will Announce Major Cloud Computing Partnership Next Monday

    Microsoft And Oracle Will Announce Major Cloud Computing Partnership Next Monday

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    Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer, its Azure chief Satya Nadella and Oracle’s president Mark Hurd are holding a joint press conference next week, just two days before Microsoft’s Build developer conference is scheduled to kick off in San Francisco. The press event follows Oracle’s earnings call that featured remarks by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison about a…