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David Coursey

Editor-at-Large David Coursey is a veteran technology journalist with more than 25-years’ experience writing about business and consumer computing. Contact him at david@coursey.com.

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Larry Page: Own up to Google’s US image problem

NEWS By DAVID COURSEY12 YEARS AGO

To: Larry Page, co-founder, Google From: David Coursey, Editor-at-Large, SiliconANGLE Re: It’s not just your image that’s a problem, it’s Google itself I was heartened to read an Associated Press story last week headlined, “Google Faces Up to Image Problem in Europe.” …

Only loser vendors are truly committed to Open Source

NEWS By DAVID COURSEY12 YEARS AGO

Is it really true that the only vendors truly committed to open source are the losers, companies left behind as more successful vendors add proprietary extensions to the core open source code? I am not sure Paul Gillin, the former Computerworld editor who now …

Can Red Hat take the “open” out of OpenStack?

NEWS By DAVID COURSEY12 YEARS AGO

Amid rumors that Red Hat is now or plans to strong-arm customers to use its own flavor of OpenStack, history tells us one thing: They won’t be the only one trying to make the open source cloud technology their own. My guess …

We need an “Underwriters Laboratories” for the cloud

NEWS By DAVID COURSEY12 YEARS AGO

The 28-hour outage of Adobe Creative Cloud last week should catch the attention of everyone who depends on cloud-based applications to get their work done. The outage makes me wonder whether we need outside certification that cloud apps are properly designed and …

Start-up to Stall-out: How to kill your cloud company

NEWS By DAVID COURSEY12 YEARS AGO

A friend just got laid-off from a start-up cloud company that’s well on its way to stalling out. The budget intended to launch the product was spent, development costs swelled, management is in a panic, money is running out. I am sharing this story …

Alibaba IPO could spell trouble for Amazon Web Services

NEWS By DAVID COURSEY12 YEARS AGO

Will Alibaba’s IPO force unwelcome changes on Amazon Web Services? The question may seem far-fetched, but really is not. Suppose Amazon’s investors look at Alibaba’s big margins and wonder why Amazon’s profits are so anemic? That’s a paraphrase of a Facebook post …

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