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Posts tagged "amazon"

Cloudy Links 1-21-2009

Posted on January 21, 2010 by Mark in Uncategorized

Latest cloud news and links: Puppet versus Chef: 10 reasons why Puppet wins John contends that Puppet has a bigger head start and that Chef has a huge gap to close or remain a tool for the Ruby on Rails cloud crowd. Puppet, Chef, Dependencies and Worldviews Andrew explains that, “Puppet guarantees that order matters on [...]

amazon, Chef, cloud computing links, IBM, legislation, Puppet, S3 No Comments Read More

Are Google and Amazon the Next Great Hope for the (Linux) Desktop?

Posted on May 20, 2008 by Mark in Featured Articles, Linux, LinuxToday, LinuxWorld, Web Applications

There was a time when I thought the Linux desktop was going to take a market share at least equal to Apple’s. Maybe even 5% or 10% of the total desktop market. I had high hopes that the One Laptop Per Child Initiative would put Linux laptops in the hands of impressionable young minds who [...]

amazon, Google, Microsoft Windows, Novell, OLPC, SUSE, Ubuntu 2 Comments Read More

2008 The Year of the Acquisition: Microsoft Bids on Yahoo!, Amazon buys Audible

Posted on February 1, 2008 by Mark in LinuxToday, LinuxWorld, Open Source

Is 2008 going to be the Year of the Acquisition? Activity in 2007 was on the rise but now things seem to be at full speed. I remember when Alta Vista and Excite! were the hot search engines, my how the world has changed.  It looks like it’s narrowing down to a two horse race [...]

, acquisition, amazon, Audible, Google, Mergers, Microsoft, MySQL, Nokia, Olliance, Sun, Trolltech, Yahoo!, Zimbra 1 Comment Read More
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