innovators

In five short years, cloud computing has gone from being a quaint technology to a major catch phrase. For the first time, we've decided to condense our knowledge into The Structure 50, a list of the 50 companies that are influencing the way the cloud/infrastructure evolves.

I was working on a piece similar to this, but Make author Phillip Torrone wroter a better, calmer, and more complete article.

Enjoy! "This week I'm going to switch gears a little and declare an enemy for all makers, hackers, and innovators -- it's in a very different space: the consumer electronics industry.

And who is this slayer of progress? Sony."

Pwnage.ca: "The SD times has announced their ‘SD Times 100‘ for 2010. The SD Times recognizes top leaders and innovators of the software development industry.

However upon looking at the list you'll see two names that stick out like sore thumb: ‘Microsoft‘ and the ‘Mono Project‘."

Steaming Open Cup: "Google has definitely raised the bar for future Linux phones with their newly launched smartphone.

It's now up to other Linux-powered smartphone innovators to live up to the challenge."

Open Enterprise: "Gosh, so much innovation for those innovating innovators – but to what end? Well, “leveraging their intellectual assets”, of course – that is software patents."