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Gear6 Expands Memcached to the Cloud
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| The Amazon EC2 High Memory instances provide
| 34 GB and 68 GB of RAM to applications for
| short-term, high usage instances. Ruiz added
| that Gear6 will also support Amazon's block-
| based storage as well, which could end up
| providing users with more utility for their
| memory utilization.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3852361/
The speed of technology's 'creative destruction'
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| But it's equally true of relatively new
| companies like Salesforce, Red Hat, and
| Google, which have eschewed gimmicky
| software and flimsy business strategies to
| give customers tangible, ongoing value. None
| of these companies sought an early exit
| through acquisition. None of them were
| content to build for the quick flip.
|
| So, yes, technology may be a veritable
| boneyard of failed companies, and essential
| ingredients like open source may accelerate
| the demise of start-ups and incumbents
| alike. But those companies that use such
| ingredients to deliver above-average
| customer value are going to endure...and
| thrive.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10412986-16.html
LoopFuse turns open source heritage into big brother sales tool
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=5411
Cloud computing, virtualization, open source poised for big gains
http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/cloud-computing-virtualization-open-source-poised-big-gains-406?source=rss_virtualization
Android's unintentional beneficiary: Funambol
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| If this sounds like a perfect storm for
| open-source Android, that's because it is.
| But it's also creating an exceptional
| opportunity for Funambol, and could well
| establish beachheads for a range of other
| open-source products that sit within the
| Android ecosystem.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10413294-16.html
Both AGPL and GPLv3 no barrier to business at all...
Recent:
Open source software can save India $2 bn
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| As Indian consumers and enterprises evaluate the option of
| upgrading to Microsoftâs much-touted operating system (OS)
| Windows 7, to be officially launched on October 22, the free
| and open source software (FOSS) community has fired yet
| another salvo at proprietary software.
|
| In the year 2010, if FOSS is adopted at 50 per cent levels
| across the economy, India can save around $2 billion (around
| Rs 9,800 crore), suggests a study conducted by the Indian
| Institute of Management-Bangalore. Even a very conservative
| estimate, notes the study, pegs the cost savings for use of
| FOSS on servers as an operating system or as an application
| at Rs 138 crore in 2010.
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http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/open-source-software-can-save-india-2-bn/369858/
Could India Save Billions With FOSS? Whose Numbers Are Accurate?
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| I suspect that such truly independent numbers would show
| that there are truths to weigh behind both Red Hat's and
| Microsoft's positions. Support and training are cost centers
| in big software deployments, but companies like Red Hat
| specialize in minimizing the costs for them. As is always
| true with statistics, it can get very hard to discern
| whether the ones we see are lies, damned lies, or truths.
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http://ostatic.com/blog/could-india-save-billions-with-foss-whose-numbers-are-accurate
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