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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO Business Intelligence

They’re concerned that Microsoft is using software licensing to limit European businesses’ choice of cloud service provider for services including desktop virtualization and application hosting. billion in 2008 for failing to comply with the 2004 ruling. Microsoft’s licensing changes came into effect on October 1, 2022.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

It all started in 2004 when Amazon was running Oracle's enterprise edition with clustering and replication. The cloud-hosted version would need to be: Scalable – The service would need to support hundreds of thousands, or even millions of AWS customers, each supporting their own internet-scale applications.

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Launching the Web 2.0 Framework - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

more ] Five reasons why Turkey is one of the hottest Internet markets in the world (7) Ekim Naz?m Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0 Recently commented on The Future of Sales is Social (the rise of social CRM) (3) Brian Vellmure (@CRMStrategies) wrote:Ross,Good stuff as always. m Kaya wrote:Thank you Ross for the great articl.[

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Mobiles leapfrog the fixed internet in Africa - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

One of the many insights on this fascinating trip was how mobiles are leapfrogging the Internet across Africa. Across the continent, and even in relatively developed South Africa, fixed broadband Internet is difficult to access, expensive, and unreliable. Mobiles have already leapfrogged fixed line telephony across the continent.

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Global comparisons: Why bandwidth drives Internet participation - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Are virtual worlds an over-hyped waste of time for marketers? However the speed of Internet access varies substantially, by a factor of almost five across the countries covered.

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A second Second Life – new competition in virtual worlds - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

» A second Second Life – new competition in virtual worlds Ross Dawson, February 20, 2007 5:02 AM US PT Hey, how come I read about this on Scobleizer first? Second Life has established itself as the de facto leader in user-created free-form virtual worlds. TD Goodcliffe believes that the space is open for the taking.

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The convergence of the Internet and TV: how will it happen? - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

and virtual worlds | Main | Strategy in a networked world for professional service firms » The convergence of the Internet and TV: how will it happen? Ross Dawson, December 11, 2007 2:04 PM US PT Several media executives have asked me about the convergence of the Internet and TV over the last couple of months.