Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
Jan. 8, 2012 11:38 AM EST

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Filmed by yours truly live at the Connecticut PowerBuilder User Group meeting February 2011. This was a great presentation by the master Jim O'Neil. We were all thoroughly engaged in the content and learned a lot. I'm sure you will too.
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