Enterprise Unix Roundup: Unix Heads for the Clouds
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| And if — if — cloud computing advances to the point where we do indeed use
| devices that connect to the cloud with virtually no on-board software,
| Microsoft will be shut out of that part of the cloud, too. Its embedded OS
| has not demonstrated a real market strength or scalability. But Linux has.
|
| [...]
|
| And out on the servers and mainframes that will be serving up this cloud
| goodness? Unix, BSD, Linux ... all secure, all ready to scale for any sized
| job.
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| Pretty scary ... for Microsoft.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3731186
"Pearly Gates and Em-Ballmer
One promises you heaven and the other prepares you for the grave. "
--Ray Noorda, Novell
Related:
IBM-Google partnership merges best features of Internet and corporate
computing, IBM exec says
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| Isn’t it an advantage to be more diversified, or would you rather rely on a
| huge cash cow like Windows?
|
| Diversity is generally viewed as an advantage. We think it is. On the other
| hand, having a monopoly has its advantages too. What more could you say? They
| make an enormous amount of money on Office and Windows. They have a very low
| cost of sales, relatively modest amount of development. It’s enormously
| profitable. And that’s the characteristic of a monopoly, which you’re allowed
| to have. You’re just not allowed to abuse them.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/020708-mills.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
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? You know you
| want to, Jeff.
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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
Aiming for the Clouds: The Red Hat Q&A
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| Q: To get back to the original question, what is your assessment of the
| potential impact?
|
| A: It’s early, but November’s news was a good indication that innovation
| amongst economic models and deployment scenarios is still possible. Not to
| dismiss the importance of some of the new features of RHEL 5.1, but over the
| longer term I think AOS and the Cloud offering are far more important than
| mere bells and whistles, because they make Red Hat a competitor in markets
| where its penetration is currently low. Even if it’s success in those areas,
| then, is minimal, the news remains very significant.
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http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/11/19/redhat_cloud/
Will the biggest clouds stay open source?
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| Everyone wants to become Google these days. In a way.
|
| Google runs Linux.
|
| A lot of enterprises, from banking to health care, are now looking to deploy
| gigantic Internet-facing applications to customer sets numbering in the tens
| of millions. (Government, too.)
|
| The biggest and best IT system suppliers are gearing up for what they
| call “cloud” computing. IBM floated its offering today.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1684
Xcerion's Internet Cloud Forms Over Google and Microsoft
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| If successful, it may be able to further erode the power Microsoft
| derives from control of the desktop, to beat Google at its
| software-as-a-service play, and to make commodity Linux boxes more
| viable as a computing platform for the masses.
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http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=R2FGBWGYKLN5OQSNDLPCKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=197700815&queryText=xml
http://tinyurl.com/ynkp9q
IBM's Blue Cloud: The Tipping Point for Enterprise IT as Service
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| IBM's Blue Cloud, arriving in the first half of 2008, will use IBM
| BladeCenter servers, a Linux operating system, Xen-based virtualization and
| the company's own Tivoli management software.
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http://seekingalpha.com/article/54406-ibm-s-blue-cloud-the-tipping-point-for-enterprise-it-as-service?source=yahoo
IBM to turn datacenters into 'computing cloud'
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| IBM is calling the initiative Blue Cloud, and compared its significance to
| its decision several years ago to throw its weight behind Linux, which helped
| the open-source OS become more widely accepted by corporations.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20071115/tc_infoworld/93434
Red Hat Pits Itself Against VMware
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| Red Hat’s new goal is to underpin 50% of the world’s servers by 2015.
|
| And since virtualization is projected to take over the world by then that’s a
| lot of Xen virtualization – and there’s no extra cost in it like there is
| with VMware since it’s bundled with RHEL. (Red Hat’s telling people they’ll
| save $20,000-$30,000 a server.)
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http://www.clientservernews.com/
RHEL just tripled the size of its ISV ecosystem!
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| Through that series of announcements, Red Hat is lining up its complete RHEL
| strategy and making it clear that it can fit all deployment scenarios -
| traditional or emerging - through the exact same RHEL bits. That proves the
| flexibility of RHEL as a distribution and also factually multiplies the size
| of RHEL’s ecosystem by further enabling all existing RHEL’s ISV on two new
| emerging scenarios, Virtual Appliances and Cloud Computing. While that might
| seem like a trivial statement, it is far from the truth. Just look at VMWare
| for example: while they are getting great traction in the virtualization
| field, it is going to be very difficult for them to enter the two emerging
| fields discussed above, as they have a pretty much empty ISV ecosystem today.
| And you don’t build an ISV ecosystem overnight (you can partner with one or
| acquire one, but not build one overnight).
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http://sacha.labourey.com/2007/11/14/rhel-just-tripled-the-size-of-its-isv-ecosystem/
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