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Drupal Founder Critical of SaaS and its Proprietary Nature
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| Drupal's founder is calling for open
| source in the enterprise and in the cloud.
| This should be no surprise, coming from
| someone like Dries Buytaert. But it is
| still interesting, considering the source
| and the point he makes about the actual
| lack of open source in cloud computing.
|
| [...]
|
| Dries:
|
| "....they might allow you to export your
| data, but they usually don't allow you to
| export their underlying code. While a lot
| of these services might be built on Open
| Source components, they have a lot more in
| common with proprietary software vendors
| than Open Source projects or companies."
|
| It's in Dries view that this model can be
| disrupted by open source. For example, he
| says, the Drupal Gardens community
| improves the overall platform by
| contributing to it. The goal, as Dries
| says, is for people to export their Drupal
| Garden site in their entirety " the code,
| the theme and data -- and move the
| platform to any Drupal hosting
| environment."
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2010/03/drupas-founder-says-the-saas-m.php
Is SaaS a friend or foe of open source?
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| Even where SaaS companies let customers
| take back their data, they often donât let
| them take the code underlying it, he wrote
| in a blog post. Data without software is
| useless.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=5982
Cloud and open source delivers the goods for publishing services provider
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| A Melbourne-based publishing services
| company is using open source and honest-
| to-goodness cloud computing for a custom,
| core business application.
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http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/37307-cloud-and-open-source-delivers-the-goods-for-publishing-services-provider
Recent:
Keep Your Cloud, I'm a Customer Not a Consumer
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| The cloud hype is getting thicker and
| smellier every day. All the cloud
| excitement is coming from those who hope to
| profit from it, the vendors and breathless
| tech journalists who can't think of
| anything worthwhile to write about. They're
| working very hard to make it sound like a
| wonderful thing, a miracle of rare device
| that will transform life as we know it.
|
| In related news, Santa Claus, the Tooth
| Fairy, Sasquatch, Yeti, and Elvis are all
| throwing a fabulous party at Graceland and
| everyone is invited. If you don't live in
| Memphis they'll send a private jet to pick
| you up.
|
| The Cloud is Nonsense
|
| The problem with all this cloud nonsense is
| it's exactly that--nonsense. Hosted
| services are nothing new. What would be new
| and radical and transformative are
| attractive products reasonably-priced, and
| good customer service. Those are the
| missing pieces, and I predict they will
| always be the missing pieces. Because it
| seems that among the big players in tech,
| research and development are devoted
| entirely to inventing new buzzwords. If it
| weren't for the small independents we would
| have nowhere to turn.
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http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2010/03/keep-your-cloud-1.html
Microsoft Cloud Services Had 5 Hour Outage [UPDATE 2]
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| On the heels of my story about the Microsoft
| (MSFT) TechNet registration servers being down
| for five days, I received an email from a
| reader claiming that Microsoft Online Service,
| the current name for its cloud offerings, had
| a five hour outage. According to the tip, that
| included the hosted Exchange email service.
| This is clearly not the sort of thing
| corporations want to hear when considering who
| to trust going forward in cloud computing.
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http://industry.bnet.com/technology/10005011/microsoft-rumor-cloud-services-had-5-hour-outage/
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