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05 Aug Tsunami?!Posted by geckoThe Wave has gone. With all its elegance, innovation, hype, etc. even Google's market power was not enough to make it big enough. The idea of essentially an inbox that continually changes its contents has been a scary one all along. Like in real life the really interesting question to ask is what shape are the waters going to take when they return? Read more... 03 Aug Users Must Manage Their Data - Or Somebody WillPosted by geckoThe NYT reports that UAE and RIM are essentially arguing about how much data RIM is going to share with yet another government. Read more... 15 Jul Changing PerspectivesPosted by geckoThe catholic church needed 400 years to accept Kepler’s heliocentric model. Maybe the W3C will be faster. And maybe the open source community will yet again be faster than a consortium. For those who have read any recent ramblings of mine, and of course for those who were patient enough to listen, the pitch here is that the data models for computer software should be user centric rather than centralized. Read more... 28 Jun Hosted services are gaining in popularity - now what?Posted by geckoLatest news about SAP’s cooperation with Amazon Web Services show that putting data online becomes an option for more and more corporations.
Read more... 28 May Microsoft Are The Good GuysPosted by geckoHow's that for a quote by a former Linux-CTO? Times are changing ... Read more... 26 May Open is the new closed?Posted by rafael.lagunaThere is a great new blog entry that Matt Asay's tweet pointed me to: Open is the new closed, Posted on May 21, 2010 by newclosed Couldn't agree more. This behavior is serious Hypocrisy. We at Open-Xchange are getting the word out for two years now that cloud services need to be open an all ends, including data. In Command your data! It is about time... we are outlining how open data can work. Read more... 26 Apr Command your data! It is about time...Posted by rafael.laguna
First, our knowledge went online (for a good cause) with Wikipedia. Next, our social life followed with XING, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. Amazon taught us how easy shopping can be online and Google search quickly gets us what we need to know and where we want to go. We’ve learned to rely on our helpers on the Internet – but can we trust them? We are at risk of losing control over our own data. Read more... 23 Apr Turn your iPad into a productivity toolPosted by rafael.lagunaOnce you get your iPad back from your kids you may contemplate making it your primary business computer. You spend most of the time doing mail and web anyway. Heavy lifting may be every other day or week or so, right? But then how does it compete to your smartphone, desktop, laptop? Which one do you get rid of? But more importantly, how do you keep your data in sync with all these devices? Read more... 01 Mar TCO comparison: SaaS vs. On premisesPosted by mherkensThis TCO calculator gives you a first impression regarding your individual Total Cost of Ownership. It compares the TCO for 10 to 150 user of
 17 Feb White label Cloud AutomationPosted by mherkensYou are a VAR and you think about cloud computing services like hosted applications, you must next decide how to go about establishing and maintaining this upcoming line of business. Do you want to become a reseller for an existing service provider or to develop and manage a hosted offering yourself? Read more... 
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