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Cloud computing on the horizon
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| Speaking at the Structure 08 conference here, Sun Microsystems CTO Greg
| Papadopoulos predicted that by the beginning of 2010 the majority of systems
| sold would be for Web, high performance computing and software-as-a-service
| applications. "We are going through this phase change in computing in a big
| way," he said. He made a similar prediction last year.
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| Papadopoulos also advocated a free market in which all interfaces and formats
| are based on open standards; customers own their data, relationships, and
| metadata; and customers can extract, synchronize or purge their data
| unilaterally. This echoes recent efforts to promote openness and data
| portability.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-9977517-80.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
OpenOffice.org: a viable alternative to Microsoft Office?
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| Ironically, by striving to overcome the inertia and the sense of
| devil-you-know security that keeps most users with Microsoft Office,
| OpenOffice.org may be fighting last year's battle. In fact, too close an
| identification with Microsoft Office means OpenOffice.org risks becoming
| associated with an obsolete IT model, as attention moves to online
| applications and "the cloud", where deployment and version compatibility
| problems are a thing of the past - as long as your connection holds and your
| browser behaves itself. This would be unfair to OpenOffice.org, which is
| already available online as part of the Ulteo Virtual Desktop. Other major
| OpenOffice.org suppliers will follow as they square up to the challenge of
| Google Apps.
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http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/06/24/231168/openoffice.org-a-viable-alternative-to-microsoft-office.htm
ODF support:
EditGrid review
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| To use EditGrid , you need a broadband internet connection and a web browser
| that supports JavaScript (as most do). After signing up for a free account,
| you can up - load up to 2GB (8GB in the paid version) of existing spreadsheet
| files created in Excel, OpenDocument, or Lotus 1-2-3.
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http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/index.cfm?reviewid=2202
Related:
Is Red Hat's New Development Environment Destined for an Amazon or IBM Cloud?
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| So who will be the one to move their tools environment to the Amazon cloud
| first? Perhaps Amazon will offer several tools options, such as one for web
| apps and mashups, and another (or two) for Java development?
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http://seekingalpha.com/article/56865-is-red-hat-s-new-development-environment-destined-for-an-amazon-or-ibm-cloud?source=yahoo
Linux in more than 90% of top supercomputers
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| Other operating systems, such as AIX (4.8%), Solaris (0.4%) and Mac OS X
| (0.4%) make the list, but Linux is alone at the top, where it is used in 459
| systems or 91.8% of the top supercomputer systems.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/11/15/linux-in-more-than-90-of-top-supercomputers/
http://tinyurl.com/2rponk
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