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Archive for August, 2007

Elon Musk of SpaceX

Posted on August 29th, 2007 by Carel

Filed under Business, Entrepreneurship, Green Energy, South Africa

I’m finally getting round to blogging about successful South African businesspeople.
At 36 and with a net worth of over $300 million, Elon Musk is one of America’s richest people under the age of 40. After two extremely successful ventures in the dot-com world, he is now focusing on space exploration and earth-friendly technology. Musk was […]

SAP’s on demand/SaaS ERP solution, codenamed A1S

Posted on August 25th, 2007 by Carel

Filed under SAP, Saas, Technology

My aim with this post is to summarize the information currently available on A1S. A1S has been in the works for at least 3 years and is SAP’s on demand or SaaS (Software as a service) ERP solution. According to ZDNet A1S is targeted to launch in 2008 and is part of SAP’s strategy to […]

Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud - EC2

Posted on August 17th, 2007 by Carel

Filed under Business, Saas, Technology

Amazon and Google are launching some amazing services these days. Amazon’s services include: Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Simple Storage Service (S3) and now Flexible Payments Service. These services may be accessed via APIs (web services) and are used by developers to introduce new products and services. Amazon charges a small fee for […]


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