Supporting foreign banks and losing billions. Now supporting US
companies.
HP, Intel and Yahoo have partnered with the state-run Infocomm
Development Authority of Singapore, the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign -- which 15 years ago gave birth to the Web
browser -- and Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. The
Illinois partnership also involves the U.S. National Science
Foundation.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/rbssTechMediaTelecomNews/idUKN2932942320080729?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0
Universities partnering HP, Intel and Yahoo might make sense, for
the research. IDA???!!! Just giving money to foreigners
again.
mr stock market `expert',
i don't think this is a fair statement from you given that we
know little of what financial commitment this partnership
entails that ida needs to cough out. what's wrong with partnering
business and technology leaders if there are net benefits ida can
get out of?
excerpts from ida press release: "IDA will facilitate research in the test bed by
providing its users with the computing resources required to
develop cloud computing software and applications. IDA will also
leverage the test bed and its industry partnerships to train local
students and professionals on the technologies and programs
associated with cloud computing."
the way i see it is ida is merely allowing its potentially
under-utilised resources here to be more meaningfully deployed. it
is a win-win situation because ida too will benefit from
these behemoth IT corporations expertise and we pretty
much know now we lag the `softwares' to complement the
`hardwares' we have built-up recently. additionally, ida
will get bragging rights in this region for having this sort of
partnership going on.
for me, this is a pretty small deal. folks like hp and intel has
much larger things to accomplish. it is the media who has
hyped it up. and perhaps you too...
