Signing contracts moves to the cloud
According to Tom Gonser, chief strategy officer and founder of DocuSign, it was a strategic U-turn by Adobe that led to the acquisition yesterday of his company’s largest rival, EchoSign. “Adobe has in the past been pretty steadfast that the way you sign a document is that you get a digital certificate and you use [...]
Three Little Clouds and the Big Bad World
A few weeks back I seem to have mystified a few readers with my apparent volte-face on the topic of private cloud, when I pointed out that any public cloud provider has to run a private cloud to operate its own service or platform. To help explain my thinking, I thought it might be useful [...]
Swartz Stole Academic Articles? Why Weren’t They Free In The First Place?
Aaron Swartz, one of the founders of Reddit, is garnering a great deal of attention after having been indicted on charges he stole over four million academic documents. Being a quasi-celebrity and political activist, the indictment is prompting a number of articles in my blog reader, and it has certainly rung Techmeme’s bell more than [...]
