links for 2010-05-07: Red Hat vs VMware; Cloud washing; Netflix selects AWS; Android in iPhone 3G

• VMware and Red Hat: The war for the data center - Increasingly overlapping portfolios force them to compete.  VMware's next acquisition SUSE Linux to get an OS?
• May the cloud washing begin: Enterprise software giants graze on cloud startups - "The burden of cloud computing proof rests with the large enterprise software folks. Your job will be to distinguish from mere cloud washing and real IT value."
  
• Netflix Selects Amazon Web Services to Power Mission-Critical Technology Infrastructure - They'd been using AWS for more than a year but are expanding their use.
  
• Android now running on the iPhone 3G - It is still a bit rough (no audio support, but coming in days the story says), but getting close to being able to really run Android on an iPhone 3G

links for 2010-04-23: Flash, Adobe, and Apple; What makes SaaS successful; Red Hat to follow VMware into cloud databases?; Letterman on iPhone prototype

• The Flash fracas between Adobe and Apple (FAQ) - A good summary of the arguments on each side.
  
• VCs: What makes SaaS successful? - Some interesting thoughts on where SaaS should and should not be used.
  
• VMware’s Database Play: Will Red Hat Follow? - It seems like a natural step to do so.
  
• Letterman on the lost iPhone prototype - His rant before the list is interesting, and a few of the items on the top-10 list are great.

links for 2010-03-27: Mickos to Eucalyptus; RedHat does right by JBoss; Mobile Metrics Report

• Mickos: What's bigger than open source? - The answer, for Marten at least, is in the cloud.
• Red Hat does right by JBoss - Future of middleware webinar 4/13.
  
• February 2010 Mobile Metrics Report - Interesting data