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Merrill Lynch building toward stateless data center
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| Birnbaum made his remarks during the opening keynote address of the
| LinuxWorld/Next Generation Data Center conference that opened Monday.
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| He said stateless and cloud computing have some overlap and that stateless
| will intersect with the cloud. He added that for too long that state has been
| closeted in individual servers and desktops, which has directly contributed
to rising IT costs.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1253228570&rid=-50
Dell defends its 'cloud computing' trademark bid
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| Dell's trademark of the ubiquitous, commonly used term "cloud computing" is
| one of those eyebrow-raising events that immediately begs the question: How
| is that possible?
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| The simple answer is that Dell is proving that it is possible; the firm's in
| nearly the final stretch of the US Patent and Trademark Office approval
| process.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=2063408763&rid=-50
Recent:
Trademark Insanity
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| It's bad enough that we have to deal with struggles over the use of
| trademarks that have become generic terms, like "Xerox" and "Coke", and
| trademarks that were already generic terms among specialists, such
| as "Windows", but a new low in trademarking has been reached by the joint
| efforts of Dell and the US Patent and Trademark Office. Cyndy Aleo-Carreira
| reports that Dell has applied for a trademark on the term "cloud computing".
| The opposition period has already passed and a notice of allowance has been
| issued. That means that it is very likely that the application will soon
| receive final approval.
|
| [...]
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| In other words, this is a pure example of theft from the public domain.
| Speakers of English have a term, "cloud computing", which the US government
| is on the verge of privatizing and assigning exclusively to Dell. Other
| companies providing similar services will not be able to describe what they
| are doing as "cloud computing" anymore than Nike will be able to describe its
| shoes as Reeboks.
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http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=434
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