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A hypothetical discussion between a cloud consultant and his client that is just too good not be posted on this late Tuesday night. Just be forewarned – this is NSFW.

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No one is spared by “the consultant”:
“No one knows what is going on. Not even Gartner. Especially Gartner.”

“CloudCamp is just a bunch of vendors getting pissed, [...]

Unlike the gripping back and forth of the fight over Yahoogle last year, the approval process for the search and online advertising partnership of Microsoft and Yahoo is chugging along slowly but surely as the Justice Department has deepened its investigation by reaching out to a broad range of publishers, advertisers, public interest groups and [...]

Microsoft will offer an application marketplace within Sharepoint 2010 that will integrate with third-party applications from its partner network. No date has been set for the marketplace lauch but it will evolve from “The Gallery” a feature that provides Sharepoint 2010 users access to templates.

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In an interview we did at Enterprise 2.0, Christian Finn said [...]

IBM announced today a set of cloud services that will allow developers to develop and test cloud applications. In addition, IBM is offering free compute and storage for developers using the IBM platform.
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IBM Smart Business Development and Test on IBM Cloud is designed to remove burdens from developers who spend a lot of time setting [...]

Authentic and precious jewelry is the choice of many people, but very few have enough money to buy such an expensive item. People tend to look for simple solutions and hence consider replica jewelry that offers designer jewelry with the added advantage of saving money. It looks identical to genuine jewelry and is worth purchasing [...]

Smartsheet has already expanded its work management application with cool features like a way to crowdsource tasks. Now it’s adding a customer relationship management (CRM) service on top of that.
The goal of the Smartsheet Sales Pipeline Management app is to give small companies an easier transition from the tool many of them are using to [...]

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 refers to an unsurpassed shooter game that is highly successful. This game is expected to be released in a very short time and features single player and cooperative mode comprising of two players and has multiplayer mode and special Ops. This is considered to be a fine game as [...]

Carl Icahn, the activist billionaire investor who made such a noisy fuss in his quest to force management and other changes at Yahoo, is taking a much quieter leave from the Internet giant’s board.
He apparently has told the Yahoo (YHOO) board that “there was not a need at this time for an activist investor” and [...]

The small business market is seeing a new crop of customer relationship management and intranet applications designed to provide a basic set of features without overwhelming the user. GlassCubes is an example of the type of companies entering this space, providing tools that the average sales person can begin using with little or no training.
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Amazon shares hit an all-time record — Today’s $118.49 price is higher than the $400-plus days of 1999, because of splits in the years since. Today’s share price would be about $700 without the splits, says the Wall Street Journal. The Journal hauled out Mary Meeker, a big booster of Amazon and other dot-com stocks [...]