I can't say that I was startled when I heard that Microsoft had put in a bid for Yahoo. It makes perfect sense to me given the tremendous momentum behind Google. As I wrote last week about the Google Sneak Attack, it is clear that Google is both...

I have been doing a lot of thinking lately about virtualization and cloud computing. The more I look at the foundational requirements for virtualization the more I am convinced that there is a close relationship. How can I say this? In the...

In the old days when mainframes roamed the world, there were things called dumb terminals that enabled users to connect to server based applications. These dumb terminals were—as their name suggests—dumb. They had almost no...