The internest.
Honeybees want to make honey, while internet host providers want to make money. And the rhyme is not the only thing to link honeybees and internet host providers, who operate vast warehouses full of server computers on behalf of their customers. Sunil Nakrani of Oxford University and Craig Tovey o...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 371; no. 8371; pp. 78 - 80 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
4/17/2004
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