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Universal Translators

By Tim Mather
October 26, 2009

Of course, we all know the story of the Tower of Babel, typified by a confusion of many languages. And for years, science fiction has included so-called universal translators that can overcome the Tower of Babel problem. It was arguably...

Cloud API Wars - Where is the security arsenal?

By Subra Kumaraswamy
September 11, 2009

Last week was an exciting week for the Virtualization and Cloud customers and potential adopters. During VMWorld 2009, a handful of announcements by the cloud computing "picks" and "shovel" providers marked the beginning of the "Cloud API War" -...

The limits of standards in OOXML and ODF office suites

By Andy Oram
May 20, 2009

Nobody expected Microsoft to make its proprietary OOXML format really work with products that support ODF. But an office suite has to hook into a huge number of outside pieces in its environment. We're just going to have to live with a fuzz factor.

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