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This Wired story has some very interesting comments on Amazon's Web Services (AWS) business. The first point was news to me: "And the idea that AWS is mostly about wringing extra bucks (especially off-season) out of Amazon's data cente
A buddy of mine just upgraded to an iPhone so he lent me his old iPod Touch to try out. I used it at the MySQL Conference along with my Palm Centro chick-phone to see if I could get away without dragging my laptop everywhere. And if I was successful,
SnapLogic has done some interesting work in their latest release being announced this week at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco. Their focus is on providing a simple approach to integration that is not unlike using RSS for data. It's a coo
Open source is picking up momentum in the ERP market because of its flexibility and relatively low cost
Marco Barulli from Clipperz reached out to introduce their online password-manager. I'd been looking for a good solution for some time now. While their Password manager seems pretty cool, especially the Direct Logins feature, I'm more intri
Deal with BT is an important validation for SugarCRM and NetSuite and could help give open source software more exposure
Build a service-oriented application using Spring and OSGi
Mark Hinkle, VP of Business & Community Development at Zenoss reached out to bring me up to speed on Zenoss. Zenoss provides software for network, server and application management. Zenoss Core is a community offering licensed under the GPLv2
Terracotta's open-source Java clustering solution addresses the fact that databases are still a significant bottleneck for many Web applications
RedMonk, the analyst firm that seems to have the best understanding of developers in my book, is hosting an unconference at JavaOne. This will be held in conjunction with the overall Community One event on Monday May 5th in San Francisco. More info a