Oracle's Larry Ellison, in particular, is a well-known supporter of the trend towards Internet computing.
Oracle is betting on a type of Internet computing in which applications are centrally managed, backed up and administered.
Google hired Gundotra in June, a prize poach of a man who'd spent 15 years running both developer relations and Microsoft's Internet computing strategy.
To ram home the message, Oracle has this month released Oracle 8i, which is designed to be not just a database, but a complete platform for Internet computing.
Google hired Gundotra in June, a prize poach of a man who'd spent 15 years running both developer relations and Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people )'s Internet computing strategy.
In an article in IEEE Internet Computing, Cloud Computing: The Limits of Public Clouds for Business Applications, I point out several problems the public cloud vendors will have to solve to support business computing.
Driven by the counter-intuitive economics of the Internet and computing technology, the spread of Internet Everywhere is deconstructing the supply chains in a wide range of once-mature industries, including broadcasting, telecommunications, mass media, computing and consumer electronics, to name just a few.
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It is no exaggeration to say that with the wireless Internet, computing may achieve its apotheosis: simple, reliable, ubiquitous and pervasive.
"The reason why mobile technology is uniquely interesting to the world right now is because it represents the fifth wave of computing, " Saylor said, with smartphones following Internet-enabled computing, desktops, minicomputers and early computer mainframes on the timeline.
Net platform, which is its strategy for delivering software as services available over the Internet from any computing device.
More decisive, however, will be the speed with which the Internet approach to computing that Oracle preaches takes off.
The timing is right now, she says, because the explosion of internet and distributed computing is changing the way companies talk to each other.
Google's strong performance came as another technology giant, IBM, revealed its earnings grew 6% in the fourth quarter, as it benefited from lucrative software businesses, such as internet-based computing.
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This is because the macro concerns have had little impact on data demand which has continued to remain strong driven by the key trends of mobile Internet and cloud computing.
But that is to reckon without the shift towards Internet-based computing, and the growing success of the Java programming language, which allows applications to run on a variety of platforms.
The market trends of mobile Internet and cloud computing are strong and continue to drive demand as more people and businesses globally are connecting to the network and consuming more digital content.
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For holders of individual stocks, the best approach is to identify other companies that will benefit from the forces that are driving Apple's stock higher, says Amy Lubas, a strategist at Ned Davis Research, including the mobile Internet, cloud computing and the continued digitization of media.
The Internet search, cloud computing, software and advertising giant saw a 36.7% leap from last year.
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Both saw a great future for their companies, despite the growth of Internet-based cloud computing via a browser.
The advent of the internet and more powerful computing that made online piracy possible also made possible legal digital distribution.
Federal investment also produced our modern computing and Internet system as well as advances in military technology that have curtailed the need for using large numbers of ground troops.
Why no historians of computing or Internet?
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Operational competitiveness is the new dividing line between the success stories and also-rans in cloud computing and Internet services, said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation during a panel discussion at the Big Science conference that took place in San Jose this week.
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Consistently upgrading computing power and internet access, at least under reasonably favorable circumstances, does.
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Despite our economic difficulties, the United States remains the leader in innovation in many areas, including social media, the Internet, software, cloud computing, content creation, medicine and biotechnology.
Personal computing and the Internet have been pecking away at the labor landscape for decades, undermining demand for everyone from travel agents to call-center workers while creating jobs in other fields.
While internet access seems nearly ubiquitous, there are still plenty of gaps, and cloud computing largely depends on nearly universal internet access.
The product is intended to eventually take all your computing life to the Internet.
The combination of highly portable devices and the mobile internet is transforming our experience of computing.
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