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The myth of free and other weird pricing issues

October 6, 2009 General

In the last few years, there has been a noisy group of people arguing that many things should be free as in beer. Later today, my colleague R ‘Ray’ Wang, partner at Altimeter Group will be offering his Tuesday post on the subject of ‘free’ software. It’s ironic as I’ve had one in mind on [...]

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I didn't get that memo

August 20, 2009 Innovation

My pitching partner on all things maintenance Vinnie Mirchandani tells me “It’s Time to Get the Accountants in the Data Center.” Harrumph – I didn’t get that memo not that it is something many CFO/FD types would find particularly interesting. At least not until they’ve taken Vinnie’s refresher course in how data centres can suck [...]

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