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Cloud computing and Open Source software
This content is 18 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Here is a post I just made to the cloud computing group in the ‘Power of opensource!!!’ thread. I thought was relevant for blog readers as well as it
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Dell Denied: ‘Cloud Computing’ both desciptive and generic
This content is 18 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.USPTO have already denied Dell’s cloud computing trademark application: A non-final action has been mailed. This is a letter from the examining attorney requesting additional information and/or making an
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Cloud computing and the coming clone wars
This content is 18 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.All this talk about Dell’s place in the cloud computing ecosystem has got me thinking… I’ve been saying for a long time now that the hardware market will turn
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In defense of Dell and where to from here…
This content is 18 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Does Dell deserve to be lynched for attempting to register the ‘cloud computing’ trademark? I guess that depends a lot on their motives (which we will likely never know).
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Sanity as a service: marketing gone mad
This content is 18 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.There’s been much ado over Dell’s (thus far unsuccessful) attempt to grab a large slice of the cloud computing landscape (‘clown computing’ is still available, thanks Dave), but it
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Dell’s Notice of Allowance for ‘cloud computing’ CANCELED
This content is 18 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.No sooner do I finish posting about Dell, USPTO and ‘Trademark Insanity’ than does USPTO go an update the status of the offending trademark: Current Status:The Notice of Allowance
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Dell, USPTO and ‘Trademark Insanity’
This content is 18 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.It’s not even been a week since I revealed my discovery of Dell’s trademark application #77139082 in the cloud-computing Google Group, and a few weeks since I actually discovered
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The case against ‘private clouds’ – a [counter]example
This content is 18 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.In my last post (The future of cloud computing – an army of monkeys?) I took exception to the concept of a ‘private cloud’, as presented by a number
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The future of cloud computing – an army of monkeys?
This content is 18 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it. I don’t care if my cloud computing architecture is powered by a grid, a mainframe, my neigbour’s desktop or an army of monkeys, so long as it’s fast,
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The Cloud and Cloud Computing consensus definition?
This content is 18 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it. “Cloud Computing is the realisation of Internet (‘Cloud’) based development and use of computer technology (‘Computing’) delivered by an ecosystem of providers.” It’s amazing that such a simple
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DNS is dead… long live DNS!
This content is 18 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Most of us rely heavily (more heavily than we realise, and indeed should) on this rickety old thing called DNS (the Domain Name System), which was never intended to
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Writing Valid XHTML 1.1
This content is 18 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.There’s a lot of good reasons to write valid XHTML (even if the vast majority of sites don’t bother): Your site will render better, faster and more consistently across