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The people's cloud
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| John Suffolk's (the Cabinet Office CIO) generously replied to my questions
| posed in last week's blog. G-Cloud is 'go' and it will be a Private Cloud,
| based on Open Standards and will use a mix of proprietary and (free?) open
| source software. All I reckon is left it to see whether it's stitched
| together by Microsoft's technology or Red Hat's.
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| Our great Free, Open Source guru Richard Stallman dislikes the Cloud concept.
| He sees it as a way to hand over your freedom to proprietarists and to get
| locked into someone else's computing paradigm. Many including this author
| agree with him. Below though is a manifesto for a 'good' cloud that would
| benefit the businesses and citizens of the UK without loss of rights and
| freedoms.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2447&blogid=17
With SpringSource Buy, VMware Constructs Cloud Platform
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| The talk of CloudWorld this week was VMware's acquisition of SpringSource.
| The top-of-mind chatter focused on the price: $400 million plus, a very large
| sum for a company doing perhaps $25 million in revenues. Certainly there was
| a good bit of envy in this type of conversation. And, of course, the fact
| that SpringSource is an open source company further makes the number even
| more eye-watering.
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http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=2988A107-1A64-67EA-E477EC5926295D21
Open Source Micro-Blogging: The Key to Avoiding Another âTwitpocalypseâ
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| Proponents of the Open Micro-Blogging movement believe itâs time for Twitter
| to become an open source platform to allow other players into the space, and
| ensure resiliency and redundancy in the micro-blogging world.
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http://www.psfk.com/2009/08/open-source-micro-blogging-the-key-to-avoiding-another-twitpocalypse.html
Recent:
Open-source, Proprietary Vendors Partner on Cloud BI
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| Four open-source and proprietary vendors on Wednesday announced a new
| partnership resulting in a cloud-based BI (business intelligence) stack.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/170064/opensource_proprietary_vendors_partner_on_cloud_bi.html
Keep an eye on your own open source cloud environment
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| Want to live in the cloud but donât quite trust it? SourceForge's open source
| project of the month for August may be for you! eyeos is a self-hosted cloud
| operating environment for business, schools and home built in PHP.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/26846/1231/
Windows losing out to Web-centric development?
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| Due to the fast growth of open frameworks, it's no surprise that the
| developer is faced with a new dilemma. It's not "which OS should I write to?"
| anymore. It's now "which Web-centric tool will help me develop the best
| application?" From the perspective of the developer, this is a much
| friendlier environment.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10302957-62.html
Open Source or Cloud?
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| Of course, many cloud providers run their environments on open source
| software, so many cloud customers will end up indirectly using open source as
| well. But when seeking faster, cheaper solutions, organizations will need to
| examine the pros and cons of going with an on-premise open source solution,
| versus a pay-as-you-go cloud solution. ÂThis may be the next big software
| question of the new decade around the corner.
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http://www.insurancenetworking.com/news/insurance_technology_open_source_cloud_computing_SaaS-12731-1.html
Stallman vs. Clouds
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| Still, I think that RMS is onto something. The core promise of computing,
| even on a vast network that connects us all, is autonomy and independence.
| It's being free (as in freedom) to operate on your own, and to share what's
| meant to be shared in ways that nobody else can control, and to improve
| useful goods in ways that work for everybody. There are, in those core
| values, imperatives that seem at odds with the dependencies that "cloud
| computing" can sometimes involve.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/stallman-vs-clouds
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