rlebherz wrote: Alf,
Interesting article. I think the Cloud services and cloud infrastructure lines are a bit blurred, but I agree with most of what you are saying.
Dont underestimate the SLA's role in accountability. For companies that have dynamic requirements and no down time can be afforded, make sure you have very tight SLAs. For example, OpSource provides a 100% SLA in the cloud and 100%SLA around production application environments. Now 100% is ideally perfect, it comes down to accountability, yo...
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Microsoft Corp. today announced that it will purchase the
Teamprise-related assets of SourceGear LLC, which enable developers using the
Eclipse IDE or operating on multiple operating systems, including Unix, Linux
and Mac OS X, to build applications with Microsoft Visual Studio Team...
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