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The Daily Cloud: Sun cloud chief Lew Tucker tweets on his final day
In his last day as head of cloud computing at Sun Microsystems, the man who essentially built Salesforce.com's App Exchange said goodbye to the masses via Twitter. (ARTICLE)

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The Daily Cloud: NetSuite's financial results say SaaS is still a blast
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