links for 2008-07-02
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“Venture funding for open-source companies rose to $115 million in the second quarter, a 14 percent increase over the same period a year ago, according to The 451 Group.” But, not so much in new funding.
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Nice, detailed piece with lots of user/customers quotes on Windows 2008. Looks like the meme forming is that Hyper-V will be a strong competitor to VMWare.
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Looks like KirinDave will be a Microsoftie soon.
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Flash player to expose more if itself for search engines. Is this an open standard anyone can use, or do partners need to apply to have access?
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William throws out some context bullets for standards in the cloud. Good comments too, including from Peter@3Tera.
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“SmartFrog is a technology for describing distributed software systems as collections of cooperating components, and then activating and managing them.” So, like Puppet?
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Detailed piece on the history of OSGi and status update on where it is today with various vendors, standards groups, and projects.
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“Sun Microsystems on Friday announced a database and application-server package that allows unlimited deployments for a fixed annual rate, positioning the offer as a lower-cost alternative to competing vendors like Oracle. “
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“The openly published SWF specification describes the file format used to deliver rich applications and interactive content via Adobe Flash Player.” Only clear for producers, how ’bout consumers?
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We in the SmartFrog team like to say “Puppet is like SmartFrog”; Luke’s language choices are clearly based on some of our options, with good reason. Note also that cfengine, bcfg2 and LCFG.
What’s different is it is Java based, and so good at managing Java things like app servers all the way up to Hadoop. At the same time, the extra layers between the supported OSes and the libraries make some things harder to do in SF than other tools.
If you come to the Hadoop UK users event, Aug19, you will see it at work…
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