http://www.businessinsider.com/apples-third-co-founder-sold-his-10-stake-for-…
“Street value of that 10% stake today: $35 billion.”
Very good reason to think about what you are selling and the value it could be later. Really sometimes you should just leave something that is only worth 800 dollars as it really wasn’t life changing.
What I find very interesting about this is that these guys are heading companies that literally are working on “the cloud” every day. In realistic terms let’s just say the cloud is “services powered by the internet” for right now as it is not even defined yet! I love this statement:
“The Benioff-Ellison dispute, while entertaining or at least diverting to those inside the industry, could be confusing and even frustrating for enterprise customers who’ve been struggling to separate myth from reality and jargon from tangible value in the cloud wars that the two high-profile execs are stoking up.”
Think your confused? So is everybody else…
(PS: this post was brought to you via very large tubes of data AKA the internet AKA the cloud)
Very interesting article about the computer information age and how it is changing the work landscape forever. Great quote from David Autor (MIT):
“the main effect of automation in the computer era is not that it destroys blue-collar jobs but that it destroys any job that can be reduced to a routine”
http://www.economist.com/node/21528226
New VMware vFabric Data Director(TM) Will Help Control Database Sprawl, Accelerate Application Development With Self-Service Database Operations and Improve Datacenter Efficiency.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/VMware-Introduces-New-iw-1888124214.html?x=0
My Quote: ”Making it easier for Tier 3′s Enterprise Cloud customers to manage the complexities of their data is core to our Database as a Service strategy,” said Jared Wray, Founder and CTO, Tier 3. ”VMware vFabric Data Director™ overcomes many of the challenges our customers face in moving to self-service databases in the cloud and represents a real step forward in technology that empowers Database as a Service.”
Accounting:
Last thing – now that I could see the receipts. For your car rental, you put $24.37 rather than $246.37. I thought it looked funny when I first saw it, but thought you must have gotten some amazing deal. I’ve corrected it now on my end and your total reimbursement is $XXXX.XX.
Engineer Reply:
Wow… 6 years of advanced statistics and computation theory and I get taken out by a decimal place. That is absolutely amazing! Thanks a million for catching my mistake(s) AGAIN AND AGAIN.
http://www.geekwire.com/2011/exmicrosoft-employees-great-entrepreneurs
Very interesting insight on the MS machine and what the current state it has. One thing that really was overlooked is that many of the technical people at Microsoft are very entrepreneur oriented but are caught up in the management and politics now.
Jason Waxman from Intel is right with the current growth that is going on with servers. What will be the real thing to look at is how much of it is cloud computing. With the industry analyst saying that there is only about 4% of the computers in the world dedicated to cloud computing there is a huge potential for massive growth when all of the applications behind the firewall start moving in droves to the cloud.
http://gigaom.com/cloud/servers-are-like-money-youll-always-need-more/
