Archive for February, 2008

Google Sites is not enterprise ready »

Google launched Google Sites yesterday after a long 16 month wait. After acquiring the promising startup, Jotspot, Google went into a long hiatus with rumors of impending launch coming out in regular intervals. Finally, Google released it as a part of Google Apps Suite yesterday night. My first reaction to the release was one of [...]

Why Cloudo and others like it are doomed to fail »

Many years ago, we had desktop operating systems. The ones that succeeded were the ones that were able to develop an ecosystem of applications and developers around them. That worked very well for a long time. Then along came the web, and as the web has matured, the platform that developers build [...]

Microsoft, Yahoo and the Cloud »

I am pretty much assuming that the Microsoft/Yahoo deal will go through, much to my chagrin. The first question I had was, what about Yahoo’s open source projects. Much as I like Google, Yahoo has always been a super open source friendly company and has pioneered support for projects like Hadoop (the open [...]