PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: CloudBees Acquires Stax Networks To Accelerate Their PaaS Strategy
CloudBees, founded in early 2010 with developers in US, Europe and Australia, today announced the acquisition of Stax Networks, the Java Application platform running on top of EC2. This acquisition accelerates CloudBees’ RUN@cloud PaaS strategy which is slated for release in January 2011. Regular readers of this blog know that I am strongly pushing the [...]
Internal Email on Why a Software Company Migrates Away from MySQL
Twitter is abuzz this morning with MySQL news: What these messages refer to is that Oracle dropped InnoDB from the free Classic Edition, it is now only available starting with the $2,000 Standard Edition. A few days ago we heard support prices were increased – none of this should come as a surprise, the writing [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: VMForce – A Marriage Of Convenience
This is a second post in my series titled “PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services“. I was planning to write about Heroku but since the VMForce news was a good fit for the topic, I am pushing the analysis of VMForce under the series. The post about Heroku will follow soon. Today morning, VMWare [...]
Microsoft Azure Brings on Some Support for Open Source
As Azure gets closer to its release date of 01 January 2010 – the biggest question is what kind of support can you get for open source systems or programs like PHP. With AWS (Amazon Web Services) you can get Linux and native PHP support, and you can do the same with Rack Space Cloud [...]
A Sad Day for Open Source? Oracle Acquires Sun…
Java? MySQL? Not much more to say at the moment… Yes, I know, this should have been a Tweet Details @ Bloomberg, NYT, TechCrunch, GigaOM, deal architect, SmoothSpan and soon the rest of the world… Update: A day later, if you had any doubts, here’s the answer: Bye-bye MySQL, Bye-bye: Buried Alive By Oracle.
Google App Engine’s Next Iteration
Image via CrunchBase Today, at the Campfire event to celebrate Google App Engine’s first birthday, Google made some significant announcements related to Google App Engine. The biggest news of them, though it has been anticipated for sometime now, is the support for Java in Google App Engine. This is definitely a significant move as many developers are clamoring for Java [...]
