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Archives for February, 2009

A Fair Trade for Email: You Decide.


A persistent theme in these writings is the abundance of computing power available for free, or almost free.  In the Featherlight series at ExecutiveEngines, we are illustrating how much critical IT horsepower can deployed in a startup for much less than the daily cost of a fancy coffee, a latte grande. These ideas are forged [...]

Dark Clouds and the Economics of SPAM


New study on SPAM economics crossed my radar screen, same week as the U.S. Postal service is reporting a reduction in volume. Related? Meanwhile from the dark side of the cloud, botnets are vigorous users of utility computing.