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JumpBox: Open Source Meets SaaS Again
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| Even as some VARs begin to embrace open source applications, they must deal
| with a new force: The shift of open source applications into the cloud and
| SaaS (software as a service) models. A case in point: JumpBox has pushed a
| dozen open source applications into the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
| service. Here are the implications for VARs.
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http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/12/22/jumpbox-open-source-meets-saas-again/
Cash-strapped companies head for the clouds
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| Todd Pierce recently put his job on the line.
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| To meet the computing needs of 16,300 employees and contractors at Genentech,
| Pierce took a chance and decided not to rely entirely on business software
| from Microsoft, IBM or another long-established supplier that would have let
| Genentech own the technology. Instead, Pierce decided to rent these
| indispensable products from Google.
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10549318
Recent:
Washington DC latest to drop Microsoft for web apps
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| Washington D.C. has joined 500,000+ businesses and organizations in moving
| its communication and productivity tools into the cloud. Vivek Kundra, CTO
| for the District, signed an agreement with Google to migrate the
| organization's 38,000 employees to Google Apps, the search giant's web-based
| offering of communication and productivity tools. Washington D.C. is a
| not-insignificant win for Google, and yet another blow to Microsoft's
| incumbent Office suite, as a surge of web apps steadily replaces their
| desktop counterparts.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081012-washington-dc-latest-to-drop-microsoft-for-web-apps.html
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