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By Roger Strukhoff
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.
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"There's definitely a lot of betting going on, and it's not rational." - Book publisher and conference thrower Tim O'Reilly, who coined the phrase Web 2.0, on the Bubble-style amounts of money going into Internet start-ups as quoted in the New York Times where he worries that the Valley is "minting too many copycat companies, half-baked business plans and overpriced buy-outs." The trend in valuing social sites, the latest investment fad, is to count users and ignore any P&Ls.

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'There's definitely a lot of betting going on, and it's not rational.' - Book publisher and conference thrower Tim O'Reilly, who coined the phrase Web 2.0, on the Bubble-style amounts of money going into Internet start-ups as quoted in the New York Times where he worries that the Valley is 'minting too many copycat companies, half-baked business plans and overpriced buy-outs.' The trend in valuing social sites, the latest investment fad, is to count users and ignore any P&Ls.


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