Doesn't matter. Acquiring company can just purchase IP and not the corporation - thus invalidating all the cute "do no harm" language.

Parent means enterprise consulting "no one ever got fired for buying IBM"

Our SaaS is hosted on both AWS and Azure. It one goes down, the other picks up the slack. It is far from easy to configure, but you want real redundancy you need to do it.

Oh, you mean they store the password in plain text? That is the easiest give away there are poor security practices - password max lengths. Once hashed passwords all have the same length, so avoid those sites like the plague.

Sadly this is closer to reality

That Wolf Blitzer has at the moment. Between this and Ebola, CNN has the next few months of programming on a silver platter.

Amazing how the government freaked out over H1N1 years ago and simply nothing happened. Yet, a real virus is on the move and "everything is a-ok" is the word from everyone.

Yes yes, you only get it if you come in contact with feces, vomit, etc, but that perception is there now that it is in the US.

I do all native for my development. But, if you design your business and storage layers correctly, it is all but a few "find and replaces" to convert ObjC to Java. Then all you have to worry about is your UI. Apps that took months to sort out business logic have been ported (business layer) to the other platform in a day.

The Obama Admin has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all former administrations combined AFAIK. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/16/obama-whistleblower-prosecutions-press_n_3091137.html

You are probably more right than you realize. If the phone is parallel to your leg it won't bend. If it rests non-parallel against your thigh and you sit down, the fabric of your clothes will stretch it around your thigh, thus bending it.

What do people expect Apple to say when all they are selling are the smaller phones? OH THATS A GREAT PHONE SAMSUNG. No, they are going to describe how theirs is better.

Reviewers are shills for whoever is giving them free stuff so their reviews are useless.

I doubt Apple will open NFC up. They released their proprietary ibeacon technology which oh a few aspects has a leg up on NFC. I don't see them undercutting iBeacons.

Lets say you have the best "mobile app" to do whatever, XYZ.

Oh great, govt customer wants it. They see it today. Well, thanks to procurement, it will be 18 months before they actually buy it. But, by that point, the product will have changed a good bit - well because that is what software does now a day. But, that isn't what Gov manager wanted - they want what they saw 18 months ago.

The sales cycle will chew startups up and spit them out. Not many can accommodate 18 month+ sales cycles.

And that even excludes the issues of continuing resolutions means they don't have cash to buy buy many shiny new objects.

In the end, no worker harmed by this policy will see a dime of the $320m the government is fining them. In the end, $320m is a drop in the bucket for these firms and won't change a thing.

Not "A" but "A team of" 6 figure DBAs