Link: Oracle to market: We're Cloud 2.0

“Oracle’s positioning is that its later start to the cloud has provided the chance to learn all the lessons of the first-generation providers.” Good, deep (for word count) overview of Oracle’s cloud stuff. Original source: Oracle to market: We're Cloud 2.0

Link: Oracle to market: We're Cloud 2.0

“Oracle’s positioning is that its later start to the cloud has provided the chance to learn all the lessons of the first-generation providers.” Good, deep (for word count) overview of Oracle’s cloud stuff. Original source: Oracle to market: We're Cloud 2.0

Link: Apple bringing medical records to iPhone, Apple Watch

“It all works when a user opens the iPhone’s health app, navigates to the health record section, and, on the new tool, adds a health provider. From there, the user taps to connect to Apple’s software system and data start streaming into the service. Patients will get notified via an alert if new information becomes available.” Sounds cool. We’ll see. Apple often takes 2-3 years to actually have software that works well and is useful.

Link: Apple bringing medical records to iPhone, Apple Watch

“It all works when a user opens the iPhone’s health app, navigates to the health record section, and, on the new tool, adds a health provider. From there, the user taps to connect to Apple’s software system and data start streaming into the service. Patients will get notified via an alert if new information becomes available.” Sounds cool. We’ll see. Apple often takes 2-3 years to actually have software that works well and is useful.

Link: Why you city should avoid Amazon HQ2

Just too much growth, too fast, and raising costs which kicks lower income people to the curb: ‘Seattle journalist Knute Berger tells Business Insider that Amazon’s original headquarters has displaced minority communities there, driven up housing costs, and swelled the city’s population of homeless people. Seattle is also in the nation’s top 10 cities with the worst traffic, and doesn’t have a public transit system good enough to alleviate traffic pressure.

Link: Why you city should avoid Amazon HQ2

Just too much growth, too fast, and raising costs which kicks lower income people to the curb: ‘Seattle journalist Knute Berger tells Business Insider that Amazon’s original headquarters has displaced minority communities there, driven up housing costs, and swelled the city’s population of homeless people. Seattle is also in the nation’s top 10 cities with the worst traffic, and doesn’t have a public transit system good enough to alleviate traffic pressure.

Link: Why you city should avoid Amazon HQ2

Just too much growth, too fast, and raising costs which kicks lower income people to the curb: ‘Seattle journalist Knute Berger tells Business Insider that Amazon’s original headquarters has displaced minority communities there, driven up housing costs, and swelled the city’s population of homeless people. Seattle is also in the nation’s top 10 cities with the worst traffic, and doesn’t have a public transit system good enough to alleviate traffic pressure.

Link: The Problem With Courting Amazon

‘The question of whether, or how much, incentives actually spark a community’s economic growth is still unsettled. That’s partly because coming to any bottom-line answer is extremely difficult given all the possible variables in any scenario. “The overall conclusion is that effectiveness is there,” says Peter Fisher, a professor emeritus at the University of Iowa and the research director of the nonprofit Iowa Policy Project. “But it’s pretty small, and small enough that incentives end up being a very costly strategy.

Link: The Problem With Courting Amazon

‘The question of whether, or how much, incentives actually spark a community’s economic growth is still unsettled. That’s partly because coming to any bottom-line answer is extremely difficult given all the possible variables in any scenario. “The overall conclusion is that effectiveness is there,” says Peter Fisher, a professor emeritus at the University of Iowa and the research director of the nonprofit Iowa Policy Project. “But it’s pretty small, and small enough that incentives end up being a very costly strategy.

Link: The Problem With Courting Amazon

‘The question of whether, or how much, incentives actually spark a community’s economic growth is still unsettled. That’s partly because coming to any bottom-line answer is extremely difficult given all the possible variables in any scenario. “The overall conclusion is that effectiveness is there,” says Peter Fisher, a professor emeritus at the University of Iowa and the research director of the nonprofit Iowa Policy Project. “But it’s pretty small, and small enough that incentives end up being a very costly strategy.