Word: loudcloud
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...empty seats inside, represent the nightmare of any business that sells online. And it all could have been avoided had Cup officials made sure that vendors provided backup servers for its ticketing website, through companies like IBM and EDS (which acquired the Web-hosting business of Loudcloud). "It's like running an electric utility, because you have to accommodate huge spikes in activity," says Marc Andreessen, a Loudcloud founder. When clients such as Foxsports.com and Fandango experience surges in online traffic, Loudcloud instantly provides backup servers...
...folly. Not only do geeks treat code cracking as a contact sport, but the software industry has been trying--and failing--to combat piracy for years. "Copy protection is theoretically impossible," says Marc Andreessen, lead inventor of the Netscape browser and currently chairman of the Web-services firm Loudcloud. "All you need is a piece of software that ignores the restrictions. These things are trivial to break...
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