SaaS and the packaged software appliance
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| resident and CTO Scott Dietzen (pictured below) told me this week
| the company initially adopted the appliance model because some of
| its smaller customers in the education market didn’t have Linux
| skills in-house. By using a prepackaged appliance, Zimbra
| effectively packages in all its own Linux implementation
| skills so that the customer can just get on with using the application.
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| [Zimbra president and CTO Scott Dietzen] Zimbra uses
| appliance technology from rPath to do the packaging.
| Because it only packages up the elements of the underlying
| Linux, Apache and mySQL platforms that the Zimbra application
| actually uses,
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=346
What the world needs now is Google Linux
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| Following Microsoft's inking of agreements with Linux hawkers,
| offering to shield them from lawsuits over the 235 patents it
| reckons versions of Linux infringe, a gathering of open sorcerers
| is assembling at Google HQ to debate what is to be done.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40365
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