As he sees it, enterprise computing, or software sold to companies, is at a pivotal moment as businesses move from clunky, in-house systems to Web-based ones operating in the cloud.
This trend -- the model first surfaced in the past decade and was widely recognized when salesforce.com went public in 2004 -- is generally referred to as "cloud computing" or "Software as a Service" ("SaaS).
By packaging open source into a service (as in cloud computing or software-as-a-service) or as a software or hardware appliance, companies can monetize open source with a far more robust and flexible model, encouraging innovation, and on-going investment in software development.
Instead, it rents storage, computing power or software services from other companies.
Then there are infrastructure and platform services for companies that provide cheap storage, raw computing power, or software as a service.
The introduction of each new exciting computing device or software app considered outside the narrow scope of the traditional PC triggers the same, tired PC obituary again and again to the point of a Groundhog Day experience.
In particular this is true for those having periodical or variable tasks to execute, and, choose to not or cannot afford the expenses of buying and managing computing facilities or software packages, that should remain underutilized for most of the time.
As soon as we released the BWA v1 trial software, we urged users to report computed results or software behaviours that differed significantly from their own expectation.
The constituent HS1011 data, the resulting set of SV calls, and the Parliament infrastructure are publicly available for local download and on the cloud-based service DNAnexus, allowing users to compare novel methods to this analysis of HS1011 and readily analyze other data without extensive local compute resources or software expertise.
However, these approaches do not sufficiently support non-traditional contexts such as mobile computing [7], cloud computing [8] or software ecosystems [9].
It is almost like each of the three companies is offering not just a different portfolio of products, but a different vision of what cloud computing, social media, or software delivered as a service will do to business.
