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As Mike mentioned in the previous post, we’re going to Cloud Camp tonight. We’re sponsoring tonight’s event as well as the ones scheduled for Chicago, Toronto, London and Germany.

Related to this, the interview in the Guardian with Richard Stallman has lot of people talking. In it he says:

‘It’s stupidity. It’s worse than stupidity: it’s a marketing hype campaign…Somebody is saying this is inevitable – and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it’s very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true’

In a curious bit of irony, Larry Ellison has a similar perspective:

“The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we’ve redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. I can’t think of anything that isn’t cloud computing with all of these announcements. The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion. Maybe I’m an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It’s complete gibberish. It’s insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?

It’s true that noise surrounding Cloud Computing is deafening and that and the very definition morphs into whatever anyone needs it to be. Its important to realize that that’s what Larry and Richard are calling stupid.

Regardless of what you call it, the underlying trend toward Cloud Computing and the motivations behind it is not stupidity or idiocy. Its the inevitable, relentless, progression of computing that we’ve experienced for decades: Better, faster and cheaper.

See you at Cloud Camp.

We went to the Web 2.0 Expo in New York yesterday and it was a big success. John, Bob and Sarah (from MindTouch) handled the event for us. We just announced Deki CRM and it was a huge hit. We kicked off our partnership with MindTouch and got lots of great press [...]

There’s lots of evidence that CRM systems are rapidly becoming the focal point for enterprise information that everyone throughout an organization needs.  How are you going to get data in and out quickly, reliably, and securely?
Well, that’s a data integration problem, for sure.
Here’s what SugarCRM says about it in their recent Sugar 60 Second Snippet  [...]

Lots of chatter around the blogosphere today about the Chrome End User License Agreement (EULA).  Good reason to be concerned about intimidating, privacy-challenged language like this:
“By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute [...]

Happy to say that Network World’s list of 10 Open Source Company’s to Watch was released today and we made the list….
Here’s the entire list:

Kickfire
Marketcera
Vyatta
Sonatype
Untangle
Qumranet
Xaware
SnapLogic
Aquia
OpenMoko

Check it out.