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Software Assurance Doesn’t Work in the Cloud

Rafael Laguna on Jun 16, 2011

Many people want to believe in the notion that a company like Microsoft can come up with an effective cloud offering. But Microsoft’s own history demonstrates that being in the cloud is not in Microsoft’s DNA.

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Finding the Real Cloud News

Rafael Laguna on Jun 15, 2011

In the days before its Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple was surprisingly open (for Apple, at least) in leaking information about their iCloud offering. Various media reports indicated that Apple had wrapped ...

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Who stole my cheese – um, brand

Rafael Laguna on Jun 10, 2011

Telcos love the iPhones and Androids. And what’s not to like? Sprint just ordered $20bn worth of iPhones. These premium phones command high hardware purchase costs, come with a significant upgrade in data plan an...

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Are You Taking Cloud Seriously Enough?

Rafael Laguna on May 26, 2011

With Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype for $8.5 billion it’s clear that the company is betting big on the cloud as platform instead of Windows exclusively.

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Open-Xchange in the news

Rafael Laguna on May 12, 2011

I just wanted to point you to a couple blogs I wrote that were both published the past couple of days.

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Don’t lose access just because you are offline

Rafael Laguna on May 10, 2011

Today we’re launching a pretty neat trick for smartphone users – access to your E-Mails, calendars and contacts even when you are offline. We completely rebuilt our mobile ap using HTML 5 (great stuff by the way)...

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Practicing Cooperation and Competition with Partners

Rafael Laguna on Apr 29, 2011

With cloud becoming the new up-and-coming platform, traditional software companies are finding themselves in very contorted positions as they try to simultaneously provide cloud hosting technology and software as...

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