What will Oracle do with MySQL after they complete their purchase of Sun? Will this cause you to re-think what database platform you use? Will it make you more -- or less -- inclined to use open source? I would like to know...
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Comments Requested: Has Oracle’s Purchase of Sun (and MySQL) Caused You To Re-think Your Database Platform?
When Should You Own or Rent Your Own Cloud (vs. Simply Sharing One with Others)?
Many of us use Twitter, a free cloud-based service, to market ourselves and conduct one-to-one business development. Unfortunately, hackers brought Twitter down several times already this month with Denial-of-Service attacks. This begs the question, “when should we invest in obtaining our own clouds—vs. sharing free crowds with others?”…
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A Simple Reminder: Social Networking and “All Things” 2.0 Are About Connecting People
Over the past year, we have seen a proliferation not only of social networking tools and services but the addition of the moniker “2.0” to everything from Mobile to Health Care. It is important in all of this to remember that networks start--and end--with people. If we forget this, all of the technology and...
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What I Took Away From the Inaugural Open Government & Innovations (OGI) Conference
This week was the first Open Government & Innovations (OGI) conference in Washington, DC. What was special about this was that it combined the Obama Administration’s push for Transparency & Open Governance with the momentum to adopt “All Things 2.0.” It was a great conference. However I came away with some second-level observations that...
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Article I for Good Architecture: Modularity and Encapsulation (And How I Would Use This to Make Money via Facebook)
Use of modularity and encapsulation if one of the most powerful approaches to scaling architecture (your ability to built it, your cost to operate it--AND the value you can obtain from it). Those enterprises who incorporate this into the DNA of their technology create "killer networks" that can used to generate enormous value...
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Follow-up to “The Best Architecture Document in History” (New Series)
A few weeks back, I shared an observation from one of AOL’s former CTO’s that the US Constitution was the best architecture document in history (my apologies to my colleagues from other countries). As we approach US Independence Day, I thought it would be appropriate to begin a series that presented the Architecture Constitution...
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Big Web 2.0 Technology Challenges: Cross-Platform Media Management
In the Web 2.0 world, members of your community can upload media from any platform. This creates a literal nightmare managing CODECs across platforms. In this post, I discuss why YouTube is a greater technological achievement than Hulu--even though I enjoy Hulu much more...
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ELAvate Win’s Best Social Networking Platform by SIIA
I know this post is a little more promotional than my standard posts. However, the SIIA just validated (again) the business and technical design principles I often speak about at The Corner Office...
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