Hi Maureen, I caught your article on Oracle-Sun and cloud computing. It grabbed my attention being the former CEO of On2 and having personally worked on the Sun licensing deal with On2. Since then I have moved on and have recently joined Velocitude. I too believe in the new cloud computing front, and see the mobile device as the new thin client for the cloud.

Velocitude’s technology is so relevant to every business and consumer especially a company that is at the forefront of the Mobile Web revolution/phenomena. Specifically, as per Morgan Stanley (Dec 2009 Mobile Internet Report): “The mobile Internet is ramping faster than desktop Internet did, and we believe more users may connect to the Internet via mobile devices than desktop PCs within 5 years.”

Our technology and process, in a matter of weeks, can seamlessly optimize an existing mobile website and deliver the business experience to clients on over 4500 mobile devices including the iPhone, Blackberry and Android.

We are actively engaged with a significant number of $B+ consumer facing organizations in developing and deploying their mobile web sites for Mobility, eCommerce and enhanced applications such as SMS, barcode, advertising and mobile coupons.

To experience our technology in action please visit from any mobile devices, the following sites: http://www.autonation.com or http://www.bgtpartners.com.

More details are also available at http://www.velocitude.com/info/2009/12/29/index.pl?r=m1

Please feel free to contact me if you find yourself researching this exciting field of the mobile web and how it fits into the Cloud Computing arena.

All the best!

Bill Joll
President
Email:bjoll@velocitude.com

This is a very well written article. I hope the management at Oracle read this and takes action to prevent their loss of this technology to Google.

I'm surprised Apple and Cisco aren't "all over this" as well. Maybe even Facebook or IBM too. If not, they should all be scrambling to make a trip to Clifton Park NY and kick the tires on VP8. Google most certainly has done this (or why the offer to acquire ON2?). ON2 codec Intellectual Property (IP) is what Google wants. VP8 claims 40% improvement in Bandwidth over H.264. If ON2's IP protects the technology that makes this possible, this is huge. If the IP were not "tight", Google would certainly just hire a couple of the worlds top codec engineers and develop their own, wouldn't they?

Read more at http://c1c.me/on2 "Could a codec be "the golden egg" that impacts bandwidth, storage, and end devices?"

End devices could include Mobile "superphones" , TVs, Tablet PCs. Imagine if the datacenter (at $100M-200M each) filling up with video could hold 40% more video. Efficient codec extending battery life? Imagine how much bandwidth would be saved by wireless service providers (as video is already today choking existing wireless networks.)

I'll be at the Hacker Dojo Job Fair in Silicon Valley tomorrow if anyone from Apple, Cisco, or Facebook want to discuss. Oracle probably already knows why.

Thank you for your perspective on the Google acquisition attempt of On2 Technologies. However, I would like to point out to you and your readers that as far as the shareholders of On2 (ONT) are concerned, not Google, Oracle, Apple, microsift, IBM, Baidu, or any other mega-giga-corporation will acquire On2--at any price--unless and until the perpetrators of the deliberately targeted, destructive, illegal share price manipulation that we have endured for at least the last three years (and continues to this day) are revealed and brought to justice.
All the nasty, dirty details are revealed in the three-part ONT Shareholders White Paper--Introduction,Discussion of Notes and Spreadsheet of Historical Trading Prices, Short Interest, Naked Short Selling, and Fails to Deliver in The Stock of On2 Technologies from April 2004 to October 2009. It may be viewed at:

http://vote4on2.com/

We will not be intimidated, cajoled, bribed, coerced, tricked, or otherwise threatened into selling until justice is heard.

SPLF