Citrix Buys Cloud.com for More Than $200 Million

[mojoco]

TechCrunch has learned that Citrix Systems is buying Cloud.com for between $200 million and $250 million. The deal should be announced within the hour.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/12/ci...-more-than-200-million-redpoint-is-on-a-roll/

 

[accelerator]

For a moment I thought you meant just the domain name ...

Seems like a great buy, the name will really help them own the sector.

Rgds

 

[liam]

They bought the domain name recently , dunno what the price was but they were asking $250k

Shows what benefit a generic domain can do to your business there is an article with the VP of cloud.com on DNWIRE

http://domainnamewire.com/2010/07/23/cloud-com-floats-higher-with-good-domain-name/

 

[Bailey]

For a moment I thought you meant just the domain name ...

Maybe not that domain - but, that day will arrive - unless somebody reinvents the internet. Scary thought eh

Despite a pretty good understanding already, Ive spent the last couple of days getting myself up to speed on 'Cloud' (remote sevices) Does anybody know where the word "Cloud" as a computing term originated from or its first use.

I know it was originally thought of as a term for strictly "Data Storage" but i'd still like to get a better understanding of the terms evolution.

Jesus - how strange is that to talk about "evolution" as something that is no more than a few years old

 

[jasman]

i wonder if they'll be buying cuckooland.com next

 

[Bailey]

i wonder if they'll be buying cuckooland.com next

tut tut,

Domain speculation does require a level of connection to the infrastructure - even if you don't connect with the descriptives - Anyway how is cuckooland these days ?

 

[jimm]

Maybe not that domain - but, that day will arrive - unless somebody reinvents the internet. Scary thought eh

Despite a pretty good understanding already, Ive spent the last couple of days getting myself up to speed on 'Cloud' (remote sevices) Does anybody know where the word "Cloud" as a computing term originated from or its first use.

I know it was originally thought of as a term for strictly "Data Storage" but i'd still like to get a better understanding of the terms evolution.

Jesus - how strange is that to talk about "evolution" as something that is no more than a few years old

'The Cloud' is simply a marketing term. There is no definition and many companies interpret it in many ways ranging from a simple slice of a server to high availability failover, usage billing, scaling etc to software as a service.

Many companies are just jumping on the bandwagon and marketing products which have been around for ever as 'cloud' solutions.

The term cloud I would guess comes from the fact that the internet was always drawn as a cloud on network diagrams and similar to signify a network you dont control.