Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
Bill Gates has reportedly been making phone calls to the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Commerce to push the American National Standards Institute to ignore the votes of its advisory committees and vote "yes" on ISO standardizing Microsoft's Open Office XML (OOXML) format, the one in competition with the OpenDocument Format (ODF) pushed by IBM and Sun.
Gates reportedly picked up the phone when the last INCITS ballot failed by one vote to support Microsoft.
The only trouble with getting the US government involved in voting "aye" is that because of the way OOXML handles XML Scheme the government will have to break its own rules to use it.
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Garry Hurley Jr. commented on 3 Oct 2007
Why is this not national news? I mean, here we have a big monopolistic company trying to force their will on COUNTRIES. The major news outlets should be carrying this story instead of "Britney loses custody of children" or "Lindsay Lohan in rehab again" or "Paris Hilton Goes to Jail" and who can forget "O.J. in Trouble With the Law Again." Oh, I forgot. Microsoft has spent millions of dollars on advertising in the mainstream media, thereby buying their silence on these issues.
As a point of fact, however, it should be noted that the Defense Department has had a number of problems with Microsoft over the security of their products in the past. Noted security holes that went unattended in several versions of Windows and Office, which Microsoft knew about, acknowledged the existence of to developers, and did nothing to patch until one of the developers leaked it to the appropriate media outlets (in this case, hacker forums). If the DoD supports Microsoft's file system format, it just goes to prove that our government is now "Of the corporation, by the corporation, for the corporation. People? Oh, you mean the taxpayers. Screw them."
"Bill Gates has reportedly been making phone calls to the Secretary of Defense". Reported by who?
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Andre commented on 23 Aug 2007
1. Yes vote == unmodified ECMA standard becomes ISO standard
2. YES with Comments = see above
3. Disapproval == ECMA standard will get improved with the option to become an ISO standard, all the bugs get fixed
4. No == see 3 or ISO process fails but ECMA specification remains
No rational player including the Secretary of Defense could support a YES vote. Because it provides absolutely no advantage to them or any other party except Microsoft. It would be a gift.
Now, fast-track is designed for a YES vote but ECMA fast-tracked a premature specification. It is unacceptable as it is.
Garry Hurley Jr. wrote: Why is this not national news? I mean, here we have a big monopolistic company trying to force their will on COUNTRIES. The major news outlets should be carrying this story instead of "Britney loses custody of children" or "Lindsay Lohan in rehab again" or "Paris Hilton Goes to Jail" and who can forget "O.J. in Trouble With the Law Again." Oh, I forgot. Microsoft has spent millions of dollars on advertising in the mainstream media, thereby buying their silence on these issues.
As a point of fact, however, it should be noted that the Defense Department has had a number of problems with Microsoft over the security of their products in the past. Noted security holes that went unattended in several versions of Windows and Office, which Microsoft knew about, acknowledged the existence of to developers, and did nothing to patch until one of the developers leaked it to the appropriate med...
Andre wrote: 1. Yes vote == unmodified ECMA standard becomes ISO standard
2. YES with Comments = see above
3. Disapproval == ECMA standard will get improved with the option to become an ISO standard, all the bugs get fixed
4. No == see 3 or ISO process fails but ECMA specification remains
No rational player including the Secretary of Defense could support a YES vote. Because it provides absolutely no advantage to them or any other party except Microsoft. It would be a gift.
Now, fast-track is designed for a YES vote but ECMA fast-tracked a premature specification. It is unacceptable as it is.
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Bill Gates has reportedly been making phone calls to the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Commerce to push the American National Standards Institute to ignore the votes of its advisory committees and vote "yes" on ISO standardizing Microsoft's Open Office XML (OOXML) format, the one in competition with the OpenDocument Format (ODF) pushed by IBM and Sun.
As a result, it said, of “customer feedback and evolving usage patterns,” Microsoft cut the price of its cloud-ified SQL Azure database 48%–75% for databases larger than 1GB and introduced a new entry-level 100MB model.
It blogged that it’s noticed that many projects start smal...
Wide and cheap availability of cloud-based media services is upon us. With the transformations these services are already bringing to the consumption of music, video and interactive media, change has likewise come to professional workflows. Documents in 2012 are read, written, co...
With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) just four months away, what better time to start introducing you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...
We have technical ...
Fresh off a happy quarter, Rackspace said Thursday that it’s bought SharePoint911, one of those you-never-heard-of-them outfits that does SharePoint consulting, training and JumpStart services so it can deliver newfangled SharePoint services along with its existing SharePoint hos...
Cloud is a shift from the focus on underlying technology implementation to leveraging existing implementations and further building upon them. Cloud orchestration or a network of clouds is the wave of the future where these clouds can operate with elasticity, scalability, and eff...
