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Microsoft v. Salesforce.com – Now It’s A Patent Battle!

by Brian Prentice  |  May 18, 2010  |  Comments Off

A couple of hours ago Microsoft announced that they are filing legal action against Salesforce.com for the infringement of nine of their patents. This is only the fourth time that Microsoft has proactively filed a patent infringement action. The patents Microsoft has included are: A system for mapping between logical and physical data A system [...]

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Apple & Railway Gauges: Great Analogy, Shame About The Analysis

by Brian Prentice  |  May 7, 2010  |  1 Comment

Two days ago, at the Web 2.0 Expo, Adobe’s Kevin Lynch (CTO and SVP, Experience & Technology Organization) made the following comments in relationship to Apple and his view that they want to created a “walled garden” on the web: If you look at what’s going on now, it’s like railroads in the 1800′s. People [...]

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