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[News] IBM Puts GNU/Linux in the Server Clusters

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IBM lobs biz software at Amazon cloud

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| The EC2 cloud already supports a bunch of different commercial software. Red 
| Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, Oracle Enterprise Linux, openSUSE, Gentoo, 
| Debian, and Ubuntu Linuxes can be deployed on EC2, and so can OpenSolaris 
| Unix and Windows Server 2003. Oracle 11g, MySQL Enterprise, SQL Server 2005, 
| and SQL Server Express databases can be deployed on EC2, and Sun's Java 
| Application Server, Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise, and Ruby on Rails can also be 
| loaded on cloud slices.      
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/11/ibm_does_ec2/


Recent:

Why clouds should be more like operating systems

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| For the cloud to become more like an operating system and less like an
| amorphous mass, and by definition more useful to business, some basic
| functions need to become part of the fabric.
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| [...]
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| As the name implies, a package management systems help you install or remove,
| upgrade or configure the packages in a system - Linux and Unix mostly.
| Typical functions include: upgrading from a repository, verifying signatures
| and checksums and managing dependencies.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/12/cloud_package_management/


Microsoft Is Giving Up on Windows

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| It's true: Microsoft has confirmed that it's abandoning Windows as we know
| it. Cagey as ever, the Microsofties won't say when it'll happen, but they
| have talked a little bit about what the next OS is going to look like--or not
| look like.
|
| [...]
|
| Midori for Linux?
|
| One of my smarter-than-me buddies, Gary F., told me that Linus Torvalds
| worked on something called Midori a few years ago, an embedded Linux for
| mobile devices: "I doubt Microsoft would ever release something that could be
| traced back to Linux, but if I recall correctly, Transmeta's Midori had some
| rudimentary 'cloud computing' features vaguely similar to Microsoft's
| Midori." Read "Details emerge on Transmeta's "Mobile Linux" and "Transmeta
| Exports Midori Linux to China" for details.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/149709/microsoft_is_giving_up_on_windows.html


Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman

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| Web-based programs like Google's Gmail will force people to buy into locked,
| proprietary systems that will cost more and more over time, according to the
| free software campaigner
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.computing.richard.stallman


Cloud Computing Has To Be About Openness And Ease; Not Locking Developers In

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| There was a ton of press coverage today over Microsoft's
| not-particularly-surprising announcement of Microsoft Azure, its attempt to
| get into the cloud computing business, competing with the likes of Amazon,
| Google's AppEngine and (now) Rackspace, among others. Microsoft entering this
| space isn't a surprise at all, so it's a bit disappointing to see the sheer
| lack of details surrounding the announcement. Amazon has succeeded in the
| space because of two main things: incredibly cheap prices and ridiculous
| ease-of-use.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20081027/1630182657.shtml
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