Rarely if ever does a product vendor make a fortuitous architectural decision by accident.

Let's brush off the snark machine and translate the key pronouncements in Oracle's Q4 earnings call.

IBM put the brakes on Amazon's contract to build a private cloud for the CIA, but Big Blue will never implement IaaS as well as Amazon already can.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could save similar amounts of money simply by implementing an electronic shift key in our IT shops?

Your strategic differentiation won't come from custom integrations. Find an existing API and/or message format that meets your needs, and use that.

Headline: National Security Agency Caught Unawares by Cyberattack

You may think of metadata as the second class citizens of the data world, but not  in the realm of Big Data.

With Big Data analytics, bigger doesn't mean better. Apply liberal doses of common sense, and take any result with a mine full of salt.

Do you really want to bet your long-term archives on decades of continuous bill paying?

If you want to leverage the convenience and rapid development potential of PaaS, then get ready for the roller coaster.