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Cloud Computing: Good or Bad for Open Source?
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| Ideally, what we need is a completely open
| source cloud computing infrastructure on
| which applications providing people with
| things like (doubly) free email and word
| processing services could be offered. Now,
| it's clearly not possible to create the kind
| of huge facilities that Amazon, Google and
| Microsoft are building around the world. Not
| even Mr Shuttleworth, with all his millions,
| could sustain that for long without charging
| somewhere along the line. So simply running
| open source programs like Eucalyptus is not
| going to work. The trick here is not to
| fight the battle on the opponents' terms,
| but to come up with something completely
| different.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/cloud-computing-good-or-bad-open-source
Open source to reset IT expectations
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| The Neochange, et al, survey also asks,
| "What is the most important factor for
| realizing value from enterprise software?"
| The answer "Gaining user buy-in and ensuring
| effective usage to deliver business impact"
| garnered a 71.7 percent vote. That's more
| easily achieved with open-source software,
| in particular, which allows enterprises to
| evaluate and use software long before they
| opt to purchase support or add-on
| services/software (if, indeed, they ever
| elect to do so).
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10380272-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Recent:
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
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