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What Constitutes a Cloud Product?

Yesterday, there was a pretty heated twitter debate between Ron Miller, Irina Guseva, Tony Byrne, and myself over what constitutes a Cloud Product. This was triggered by an article that Irina had published on the Real Story Group blog about what people should take away from the Adobe security breach (besides passwords).

I am not a big fan of how Irina portrayed cloud security as cloud systems are often more secure than many internal systems. Ron had more fundamental issues with the article.

Adobe calls this product Creative Cloud when it’s not a cloud product.

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This had nothing to do with them being cloud. Adobe ID goes back years.

I tend to ignore most contradictions in a Twitter debate given the limits of the medium. I do want to counter both of Ron’s statements.

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Acquisition Fever

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image There is a lot of acquisition talk these days, both anticipated and real.  When you think on it, it isn’t really news.  Acquisitions are a constant in this industry, but there are two of late that indicate how things may be getting ready to change.  People keep asking me my thoughts, so I thought I would jot them down.

Keep in mind that I’m not an analyst or expert and I don’t play one on TV.  I can write a mean Haiku though.

Adobe Buys Day

If you don’t follow the CMS open source world and/or the CMS industry at large, this announcement may leave you scratching your head wondering “So what?”  Day Software has been one of the leading open source companies in the Content Management world.  They are headquartered in Europe and have been working to build a footprint here in the states.

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