On the front page of today's Wall Street Journal (note: requires subscription fee) <snip> Ever since Google<http://online.wsj.com/public/quotes/main.html?type=djn&symbol=goog>Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt publicly uttered the term "cloud computing" in 2006, a storm has been gathering over Silicon Valley. Companies across the technology industry are jockeying to associate themselves with clouds. Amazon.com<http://online.wsj.com/public/quotes/main.html?type=djn&symbol=amzn>Inc., better known for peddling books online, began selling an Elastic Compute Cloud service in 2006 for programmers to rent Amazon's giant computers. Juniper Networks<http://online.wsj.com/public/quotes/main.html?type=djn&symbol=JNPR>Inc., which makes gear for transmitting data, dubbed its latest project Stratus. Yahoo<http://online.wsj.com/public/quotes/main.html?type=djn&symbol=yhoo>Inc., Intel <http://online.wsj.com/public/quotes/main.html?type=djn&symbol=intc>Corp. and a handful of others recently launched a research program called OpenCirrus. While almost everybody in the tech industry seems to have a cloud-themed project, few agree on the term's definition. <snip> -- Bruce L. White, CRM, PMP Orange County, CA e-mail: [log in to unmask] List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]