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	OpenStack Continues The Quest To Be "The Cloud Standard" OpenStack took another step on its way to becoming the standard for cloud platforms today. Dell, Rackspace (via a new unit called Cloud Builders) and Equinix, one of the leading data center providers in the world have opened up OpenStack test environments in 3 data centers across the US. At these locations customers can sign up for free trials to test OpenStack. Read More WEBCAST: Oracle How Oracle Exalogic and Exadata Deliver Extreme Java View this webcast to learn why Exalogic and Exadata are the definitive engineered platforms for enterprise application and database consolidation, with added advantage of extreme Java and database performance, unmatched reliability and scalability, and cloud-enabling elastic capacity. Register Today! In this Issue The End of the Symbian Foundation Open Source Foundations vs. Corporate-Run Projects Android is a cool example of benefits and challenges of developing with open source How Open Source Really Is Changing The World Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Google as Open Source Big Brother For Cuba Open Source Is Not A Matter Of Choice Amazon's Cloud Drive: Perfect as-is WHITE PAPER: Alcatel-Lucent The Application Fluent Network This paper will show how your organization can respond effectively to a shifting IT climate to create competitive advantage and drive customer loyalty while minimizing cost Read now! The End of the Symbian Foundation It's been almost six months since the Symbian Foundation announced it was shutting its doors. Nokia will announce their new SymbianOS licensing mechanisms by the end of the month. I believe the Symbian Foundation ended for two reasons. Read More Open Source Foundations vs. Corporate-Run Projects I came across an interesting paper, "The Economic Case for Open Source Foundations" by Dirk Riehle, a professor at Freidrich-Alexander-University of Erlandgen-Nurnberg and thought others may be interested in this as well. The main thesis of this paper revolves around these points. Read More WEBCAST: Quest Software Getting Your Network out of Gridlock In the Quest Software on-demand webcast, "Getting Your Network out of Gridlock," learn to monitor your network health so you can maximize performance and minimize gridlock. Learn more. Android is a cool example of benefits and challenges of developing with open source As discussed in my last posting, Android is a particularly visible and broadly used project, and for that reason is drawing a fair amount of legal attention. There are aspects of the project that demonstrate the two-edged sword nature of open source: Developing with open source components provides a huge productivity gain, but companies need to be smart about it. Read More How Open Source Really Is Changing The World We truly live in miraculous times. I know it is easy to say, but really think about it. In just under 25 years we have seen a new world order take hold. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software It's 9am. Do You Know What Your Directory is Doing? In this new Quest Software white paper, you'll see how to get more information that native logging alone can't provide. See how you can get real time, centralized information, and how doing so maximizes Active Directory performance. Read More Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Google as Open Source Big Brother The open source and mobile computing communities were ablaze last week with the news that Google was "delaying" the release of the Android 3.0 OS codenamed Honeycomb to the open source community. Read More For Cuba Open Source Is Not A Matter Of Choice In case you want to attend, Cuba is hosting the Latin American Festival of Open Source Software on April 9th. It seems Cuba is a big supporter of open source and is trying to have a majority of its computers run Linux. In fact Cuba has its own Linux distribution called Nova. But if you think about it, Cuba does not really have a choice but to support open source. Read More Amazon's Cloud Drive: Perfect as-is Yesterday evening, Amazon announced its Cloud Drive and Cloud Player, a service that goes hand-in-hand with Amazon MP3. The only problem? Uploading to Cloud Drive requires a fairly clunky process through the Web browser. It's no competition to services like Box.net and Dropbox -- and that's the point. Read More
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