Web 2.0 at its peak? Venture investments hit US$1.34 billion
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| "From 2002 to 2006, Web 2.0 deal flow doubled every year, but 2007 saw deals
| increase 25 per cent to 178 from 143 deals in 2006," Dow Jones VentureSource
| reported. "Nearly all of this growth happened outside the San Francisco Bay
| Area, the longtime home of Web-related innovation and investment."
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=292838334&rid=-50
Google’s app war vs Microsoft: About to ramp?
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| Right now, we’re still mired in the hype cycle with Google Apps and the
| threat to Microsoft, but at some point it may be the end of software as we
| know it.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8268
Recent:
Another step toward the online "cloud computing" life
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| Web-based computing has these advantages: It doesn't matter what kind of
| computer you use. Mac, Windows, Linux, Ubuntu -- they're all the same. It
| doesn't matter whose computer you're using, or where. You don't have to drag
| hard drives or USB sticks or even computers around with you, or copy files
| between a desktop and a laptop machine to keep them up to date. You just sit
| down wherever you get a web connection and dig in. Everything you need is
| stored in the internet "cloud."
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http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/03/another_step_toward_the_online.php
IBM moves on secure mashups
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| IBM is unveiling technology to secure mashups Thursday and is donating it to
| the OpenAjax Alliance, an organization promoting AJAX (Asynchronous
| JavaScript and XML) interoperability.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/03/12/ibm-smash-mashups_1.html
Forget Facebook. The Web's platform is Firefox
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| That user experience is starting to evolve beyond today's browsing
| experience. The most interesting topic discussed in our meeting was just how
| compelling Mozilla's Firefox will increasingly be as the platform for much
| that happens on the Web. Forget Facebook, MySpace, the iPhone, and other
| so-called platforms. Firefox could well prove to be the most disruptive Web
| platform on the market. Here's why.
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9893479-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Start-up Xcerion offers a peek at the clouds
http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9893519-56.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
A walk through Xcerion's icloud
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| Xcerion, a little-known Swedish start-up, has created a browser-based
| environment known as icloud that looks a whole lot like a Windows or Linux
| desktop.
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http://www.news.com/2300-1012_3-6234262-1.html?part=rss&tag=6234262&subj=news
Cloud Computing - Did anybody notice Microsoft’s SQL Server Data Services
Announcement?
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| Linux has an early lead in
| this area with service offerings like Amazon’s Linux based S3 and IBM’s Blue
| Cloud which uses Xen and PowerVM virtualized Linux operating-system images.
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http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/jzemlin/2008/03/14/cloud-computing-did-anybody-notice-microsofts-sql-server-data-services-announcement/
Related:
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.
|
| Pretty scary ... for Microsoft.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3731186
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
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
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