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Cloud Foundry - Make it Yours!
cloudfoundry.org/, posted 2011 by peter in cloudcomputing development distributed hosting opensource scalability startup vi
Cloud Foundry, a VMware-led project is the world’s first open Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. Cloud Foundry provides a platform for building, deploying, and running cloud apps using Spring for Java developers, Rails and Sinatra for Ruby developers, Node.js and other JVM frameworks including Grails.
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The dark side of Hadoop - BackType Technology
tech.backtype.com/the-dark-side-of-hadoop, posted 2011 by peter in cloudcomputing development distributed opensource opinion toread
At BackType, we are heavy users of Hadoop. We use it to run computations on our 30TB datastore of social data. We've even open-sourced some significant projects that are built on top of Hadoop.
Unfortunately, Hadoop has problems. It's sloppily implemented and requires all sorts of arcane knowledge to operate it. We would be the first to try out a replacement for Hadoop if a viable alternative existed. In this post, we'll look at some of the darker aspects of Hadoop.
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Why I was wrong about Microsoft - The H Open Source: News and Features
www.h-online.com/open/features/Why-I-was-wrong-about-Microsoft-1218798.html, posted 2011 by peter in business copyright dinosaurism microsoft opensource patent politics usa
This latest trend to devise and deploy legal strategies against open source seems to me to represent an admission on Microsoft's part that it can no longer compete on technology. Instead, the dinosaurs have decided that it's time to play really dirty – and nothing is dirtier than enforcing bad monopolies using worse laws.
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