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The Switch to Open Source Software in Enterprise Applications

by Erik on September 23, 2009

in Cloud Computing,Enterprise Systems,Facebook,IBM,Open Source,SaaS

The current landscape of the enterprise information systems sector is one with a vast selection of software vendors armed with a seemingly endless number of proprietary software applications. In the typical business model, the users of these applications are charged large sums of money for licenses to run the programs, and at times, even larger [...]

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Facebook Nabs The Man Who Engineered Google AdSense For Many Years

by Erik on June 14, 2009

in Competition,Facebook,Google,Human Resources

Facebook has just hired Greg Badros, a Google Senior Director of Engineering, we’ve learned. Badros joined Google in early 2003 and has worked his way up the chain since then. At Facebook, his official title will be Director of Engineering. At Google, Badros was in charge of the AdSense engineering team from its formative years [...]

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