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OSCON, Pt. 2.3: Jim Zemlin's Outlook Is Cloudy (In A Good Way)
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| Cloud computing has, in his purview, the same game-changing potential as open
| source itself. "I recently talked to a big bank's CIO and he told me their
| cost per CPU core-hour was something like thirty-five cents. Amazon's cost
| per CPU core-hour is about seven cents. Latency is still a big issue with
| clouds -- obviously you don't want to be running a trading application on one
| of them -- but before long it's going to be very hard justifying not using a
| cloud for something. All these new startups use clouds and virtual machines
| to scale on demand; they don't buy any iron at all."
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07/oscon_pt_23_jim.html
Message to Microsoft: Google's gunning for ya--again
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| What's Google's next big revenue stream? Text ads remain the cash cow for the
| present, but the company's future includes a big role for display
| advertising.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-10787_3-9997780-60.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Perl is being added to Google clouds service. They also want to buy Digg and
now there's this:
Google Launches Online-Publishing Service, a Potential Wikipedia Rival
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| Google Inc. has launched an online-publishing service that is a potential
| competitor to Wikipedia.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121686715842980001.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Recent:
Hip-hip-Hadoop!
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| Go[t] that? 10,000 core processors running GNU/Linux at the heart of Yahoo.
| Microsoft is damned if they do (rip and replace) and damned if they don't. Go
| on, make our day, Steve....
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/02/hip-hip-hadoop.html
Open Source Moodle Heads to the Amazon Cloud
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| Infinity Learning Solutions announces a cloud computing solution for Moodle
| using the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. Included in the offering is an
| optional single sign-on integration with DigitalChalk, a streaming video
| lesson authoring and delivery system also available on AWS.
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/Moodle/Cloud_Hosting/prweb1105914.htm
Related:
Top secret: Microsoft's $6 billion open source play
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| This month's announcement by Microsoft to acquire digital marketing
| services firm aQuantive has revealed little on how the companies
| will integrate their IT, but inside information indicates the deal
| may be Redmond's largest commitment to free software.
|
| [...]
|
| Whether the businesses are complementary or not, Microsoft's integration
| work will no doubt involve a lot of open source software used by aQuantive.
|
| Information available from Atlas' Web site indicates the Internet software
| company employs extensive use of open source software including Linux,
| Apache, MySQL, and Solaris.
|
| Software engineers at Atlas' Raleigh office do client/server development in
| C and C++, software maintenance and "scripting", and developing and
| maintaining custom reporting capabilities.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1616039231;fp;2;fpid;1
It's unofficial: Microsoft bets business on Linux
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| What the press statement didn't mention is that Aruba mobility
| controllers run the Linux operating system which Microsoft has
| aggressively targeted as being inferior to Windows as part of
| its "Get the Facts" marketing campaign.
|
| [...]
|
| Pandey's appraisal of Aruba's technology is in stark contrast to
| Microsoft's "Get the Facts" rhetoric which places Windows as a more secure,
| and higher-performing choice over Linux.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;754084996;fp;2;fpid;1
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