User talk:SamJohnston

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I came by to say thanks for your merge of the Citrix Systems related articles. It was on my list of things to eventually do. Seeing you haven't been formally welcomed, I'll do that too!

Again, welcome! JonHarder 13:18, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Everything as a service

I've moved your new category to be a subcategory of Category:Service-oriented (business computing). By the way, you missed a few as-a-services - see my blog. [1] --RichardVeryard (talk) 16:21, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Force.com

A tag has been placed on Force.com, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam as well as the Wikipedia:Business' FAQ for more information.

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I've declined the speedy. Does not appear to be spam, but desperately needs expansion. Toddst1 (talk) 23:52, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cloud Computing page suggested/request edits

Sam

The Cloud Computing page should be updated to include a few items. You appear to be active in this section and I cannot edit it due to a business relationship with one of the companies involved. Particularly, this sentence:

The cloud computing "revolution" is being driven by companies like Google, Red Hat[9], Salesforce and Yahoo! as well as traditional vendors including Hewlett Packard, IBM and Microsoft[10] and adopted by individuals through large enterprises including General Electric, L'Oréal and Valeo[11][12].

This sentence lists Google, Red Hat, Salesforce and Yahoo as leaders/drivers in cloud computing. It should begin with Amazon, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon and 3tera http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3tera, who are pioneers in the efforts to offer commercial cloud services.

Among the large enterprises, you should also include British Telecom, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_telecom, who is running on of the largest 3tera clouds in the world.

Additional, I suggest expanding this sentence into one or several paragraphs: Commercial offerings need to meet the quality of service requirements of customers and typically offer service level agreements[6]. Open standards and open source software are also critical to the growth of cloud computing[7].

This sentence is very accurate and important. Many of the commercial offerings fail to offer service level agreements or open standards, let alone suppor open source software (Google, Amazon and Yahoo, as far as I understand, do not but I am not an expert in this area:

Jonahstein 17:10, 5 August 2008 (UTC)