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Why so many SaaS companies are launching their own media operations

TechCrunch

Around 2003, as blogs began to take hold in the internet psyche , it became clear that these writing tools could be more than an outlet for an individual’s ruminations — they also had vast potential for business and marketing. It turns out that writing a corporate blog was just the first step in a longer, broader media journey.

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO

Around the turn of the century, Autonomy Corporation was one of the darlings of the UK technology industry, specializing in knowledge management and enterprise search. Its Agentware internet search tools are used by enterprises including Barclays Bank and Unilever and sold as shrink-wrapped software through retail outlets.

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How doing everything wrong turned Automattic into a multibillion dollar media powerhouse

TechCrunch

WordPress, the open source software behind the company, is now estimated to power roughly 42% of all websites on the internet. Automattic focused on media at a time when that industry was being demolished by the internet. Back in 2003, that was the context for the so-called weblog, which would shortly be elided to blog.

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Teraco and VMware are Taking a New Approach to Support the Efforts of South Africa’s Cloud Innovators in Their Quest to Achieve Zero Carbon Emissions

CIO

With four ultra high-performance data centers in South Africa – including facilities in Cape Town, Durban, and Johannesburg – the company forms the core of the nation’s internet backbone, and serves as the interconnection for both local and global cloud services. Silicon Sky specializes in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

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Does IT Infrastructure really matter? YES!

Infinidat

In May 2003 Nicholas Carr published a piece titled “ IT Doesn’t Matter ”. But I find myself disagreeing with his interpretations of his own credible evidence, and more importantly his conclusions, just as strongly now as I did then when I first read his piece in 2003, if not more so. Does IT Infrastructure really matter? Evan Doherty.

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History of MySQL Database

The Crazy Programmer

Series B pitch is available on the internet. With its primary revenue arriving from OEM dual-licensing, MySQL moved into an enterprise market and focused on revenue from the end-users instead of licensing fees from OEM partners. They ended with over $6.5 million in revenue with over 1,000 paying customers. Raised over $19.5

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Cybersecurity Q&A with Dave Elfering, VP information security at Werner Enterprises

Sailpoint

Werner Enterprises, founded in 1956 by executive chairman Clarence L. I guess the moment it really clicked was after I read the book Building Internet Firewalls , by Elizabeth Zwicky and Brent Chapman in 1997. It connects us to the internet,” they replied. Werner, began with a single truck. That’s our router.