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A Cloudy Future
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| But cloud computing is going to change the industry in as profound a way as
| client server did in the late nineteen eighties to nineteen nineties. The
| ability to easily provision and scale up software services based on the Free
| Software LAMP stack (Linux / Apache / MySQL /PHP or Perl or Python) or more
| modern fare such as the open source Java software framework Hadoop is going
| to massively change the way software is developed. Of course at my day job,
| it already has for many of the engineers.
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| Even old fogies like me are going to have to learn some new tricks in this
| world. Free Software is going to have to adopt as well. I still have lots of
| Samba code to write first (no, Samba isn't a finished product yet), but if I
| ever work on cloud computing code, I'd like to see it under the AGPL, in
| order to preserve the freedoms I've been able to enjoy in conventional
| software development these many years. Without the AGPL, our freedoms will
| depend on the kindness of strangers donating their modifications to our code
| back to us, as they did in the days before the GPL license and the FSF was
| born.
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http://www.tuxdeluxe.org/node/293
Recent:
Eucalyptus: the unsung hero of Open Source?
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| Eucalyptus is an open-source infrastructure for the implementation of cloud
| computing on computer clusters. Its name is an acronym for "Elastic Utility
| Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems".
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| The current interface is compatible with Amazon's EC2 cloud computing
| interface. Tom Callway speaks to Rich Wolski, the project's director, about
| how Eucalyptus can be leveraged by enterprises and where it sits along side
| proprietary alternatives like Windows Azure.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1927&blogid=17
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