Forbes recently published a special report on outsourcing titled Inside Outsourcing with a number of good articles and op-ed pieces. You can view all the articles here: http://www.forbes.com/2008/05/28/labor-technology-innovation-oped-cx_hra_outsourcing08_0529lander_land.html
One of the op-ed articles that I found particularly interesting is title “For Innovation, Look Externally” by Edward Bernstein. Here is what he says:
The world is becoming increasingly [...]
We are living in a world of wireless and wired networks that bring applications, information and entertainment to individuals and connect them in radically evolving ways. Products and technologies such as smart phones, iPods, STBs, IPTV, home networking, RFID, 3G and WiFi are making the vision of pervasive computing more possible in the real world. [...]
There has been quite a number of PAAS vendors who have made news recently. Force.com is the posterchild ofcourse along with the traditional Oracle and Microsoft platforms. But the new entrants BungeeLabs, Apprenda, Zoho and Etelos are crowding up the PAAS space quickly though there seem to differences in what each are offering.
Are we [...]