Links for February 25th through February 26th
- Microsoft's Patent Cunning
- Muglia: Open source to permeate Microsoft
- HP to distribute, support Sun's Solaris
- HP and Sun Microsystems Sign Multi-year Partnership Agreement for Solaris on HP ProLiant Servers
- Canonical's April 2009 Surprise for Ubuntu: Landscape | WorksWithU
Canonicals SaaS hosted updated and monitoring service. Priced at $150 a node. Also, in future releases: "We will also be implementing features that will enable users of Ubuntu in the Amazon EC2 Cloud to manage and monitor their Ubuntu instances."
- TwitchBoard
"TwitchBoard listens to your twitter account, and forwards messages on to other internet services based on what it hears. Our first service will automatically save any links you tweet to the del.icio.us bookmarking service. We're working on connections to many other services — stay tuned!"
- Evernote and Shoeboxed Make Receipts Universally Accessible
Evernote teams up with "Scanning-as-a-Service" provider Shoeboxed to help you go paperless. Shoeboxed is $10-$50/month.
- As U.S. IT jobs are cut, H-1B use by offshoring vendors rises | InfoWorld | News | 2009-02-25 | By Patrick Thibodeau, Computerworld
Nielsen gets slammed for firing locals and hiring internationals. E.g.: "In an interview last week, Srini Pallia, vice president and global head of business technology services at Wipro, said that if the restrictions increase on H-1B visa use, his company has a 'Plan B' that would include hiring more workers in the U.S. 'We definitely have people locally who will be on the project,' he said."
- Innovation Economy: $7.4 million for CloudSwitch, Which Aims to Make Cloud Computing Safe for the Enterprise
- How bank bonuses let us all down
"Indeed, the incentive system put in place by financial companies has produced the worst possible economic system mankind can imagine: capitalism for the profits and socialism for the losses…. No incentive without disincentive. And never trust with your money anyone making a potential bonus. "
- Elastra Enterprise Cloud Server 2.0 “Beta” Press Release | IT Management and Cloud Blog
"The leading virtualization platform, VMware Infrastructure, is Elastra’s platform of choice for virtual private cloud environments due to its comprehensive management toolset, scalability and proven reliability."
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