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Beyond the Cloud: The Comprehensive Flexibility of FOSS May Bring Clearer Skies
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| Fortunately this type of flexible software
| does exist. It is called Free and Open
| Source Softare (FOSS) and it is becoming
| ubiquitous. In fact, whether you know it
| or not, you are using FOSS software:
| Apache, the FOSS web server, runs this web
| site and indeed the majority of all web
| sites. Wordpress, the blogging software we
| use here is also âeverywhereâ and you can
| purchase it from âcloudâ utility providers
| or install, run, and modify it yourself.
| The list of important FOSS software goes
| on and on and this blog is dedicated to
| helping elucidate its importance as well
| as the issues involved in managing it.
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http://blog.remoteresponder.net/2010/06/29/beyond-the-cloud-the-comprehensive-flexibility-of-foss-may-bring-clearer-skies/
WSO2 launches 100% Open Source Cloud Platform
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| An enterprise applications developer with
| development facilities in Sri Lanka
| recently launched its first 100% open
| source cloud platform, WSO2 Stratos. Built
| upon the WSO2 Carbon platform which it
| introduced last year, the company's,
| WSO2's, new productoffers advantages such
| as lower project times and reduced data
| centre costs, WSO said in a statement.
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http://www.sundaytimes.lk/100627/BusinessTimes/bt31.html
The intersection of open source and cloud computing
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| Take the interesting discussion about the
| future of the LAMP stack recently. LAMP--a
| software stack consisting of Linux, Apache
| Web Server and/or Tomcat, MySQL (or
| another open-source database engine) and
| the Perl, Python and/or PHP scripting
| languages--plays a critical role in the
| world of Web applications, but as I noted
| recently, it may not be as critical to the
| cloud.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-19413_3-20006393-240.html
Recent:
Red Hat releases cloud computing software tools
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| LEADING LINUX VENDOR Red Hat has announced the
| release of several cloud computing tools in
| what it calls Cloud Foundation: Edition One.
|
| [...]
|
| Red Hat claims Edition One is the first of
| several cloud offerings that will give its
| customers everything they'll need to build and
| manage a private cloud software
| infrastructure.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1687617/red-hat-releases-cloud-computing-software-tools
Red Hat Unveils Comprehensive Cloud Infrastructure Solutions
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/red-hat-unveils-comprehensive-cloud-infrastructure-solutions-2010-06-23?reflink=MW_news_stmp
Red Hat puts open source in the cloud
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2010/06/24/241719/Red-Hat-puts-open-source-in-the-cloud.htm
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:
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| "....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
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