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Yahoo, Tata Subsiduary In Research Pact

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Yahoo, Tata Subsiduary In Research Pact

What is a Cloud

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Here is my definition of the Holy Grail “Cloud”.
Primary Characteristics

It uses commodity-based hardware as its base. The hardware can be replaced anytime without affecting the cloud.
It uses a commodity-based software container system. For example, a service should be able to be pulled from one cloud provider to any other cloud provider with no effect […]

YAHOO! HOO-HA

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

 YAHOO! HOO-HA
Mutual fund giant T. Rowe Price, which owns 18 million shares of Yahoo! said yesterday that it would be “very vocal” if Microsoft raises its offer and Yahoo! rejects it again.

Jim Cramer are you listening yet? … Clouds on Yahoo’s Quarterly Earnings Call

Friday, February 8th, 2008

In her prepared remarks during last week’s quarterly earnings call, Yahoo! President Sue Decker said the following:
Although we haven’t elaborated on this much publicly, on the back end we have made a major investment in open source development of grid computing which provides a substantially greater scalability at fast iteration on core technologies. This is […]

Google Tries To Make Yahoo An Offer It Can’t Refuse

Monday, February 4th, 2008

Ya got to love this!
Google Tries To Make Yahoo An Offer It Can’t Refuse

Microsoft Makes $44.6 Billion Bid for Yahoo

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Microsoft Makes $44.6 Billion Bid for Yahoo

A Cloud Naysayer

Monday, January 28th, 2008

I posted some comments on a recent article by Robin Harris, Cloud computing - in your dreams.
Who knows who’s right? Here are my comments…
I think the differentiators are virtualization and power consumption. It is virtualization that has turned academic exercises into real business prototypes. I may be wrong but I think the brick and mortar […]

5 Reasons Why Microsoft Will Buy Yahoo!

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

5 Reasons Why Microsoft Will Buy Yahoo!

Top 5 Technology Watch List for 2008

Friday, December 21st, 2007

It’s that time of the year where everyone is predicting the future. So, here is my obligatory top 5 watch list for 2008.

Yahoo Might be a Stretch Runner

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Is Yahoo now coming around the far turn and into the stretch?
Growing up in New York, I could not escape the popular sport of horse racing. I remember my uncle taking me to Belmont Racetrack when I was about eight years old. My first bet was on a horse that had the same […]

Yahoo Uses Drupal

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

This is a Tipping point for Drupal.  I am already sold on this technology however I am glad to see Yahoo open up on this.