links for 2010-05-20: Android on the iPhone; Google IO; Conan visits Google

• VMware’s Cloud Portability Promise Powered By Google - One of the announcements out of Google IO was their working with VMware to offer Java via SpringSource in the cloud.  This is Stefan Ried's analysis.
  
• The Mall of Google - Jeffrey Hammond's analysis of Google IO day 1.
• Conan visits Google - Entertaining if you have the time to watch it.
• How to install Android on your iPhone - I haven't tried it yet, but thinking about it ...

links for 2010-05-17: Google I/O is the new JavaOne; Government using the Cloud; Caspio = Access + Cloud?; Jobs engages blogger

• Google I/O is the new JavaOne - Google I/O is this week.  Will it become "the" developer conference superseding the new, not at Moscone, JavaOne Oracle puts on in the fall?
• Recovery.gov finds new home in the cloud - It is good to see the government saving the taxpayer a little money by using the cloud.
• Is Caspio The "Microsoft Access" Of The Cloud? - Interesting tool for simple query (and presumably full CRUD) applications.
  
• VMware/SpringSource buys GemStone - I worked with their Smalltalk offerings in the past and really liked them.
• Steve Jobs engages blogger via e-mail - Kudos to Jobs for engaging, but I still think Apple goes too far in "protecting" their users.

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 2010-04-30: Response to Jobs missive against Flash; Another view on VMforce; Indians most hated team?

• The parallel world of Apple: Where open is not always open - Correctly points out the similarity in Apple's lack of openness particularly around iTunes.
  
• Steve Jobs on Flash: Correcting the Lies - Pokes holes in many of Steve's points, but (if you have a lot of time) read the comments and see holes poked in his hole poking.  It is entertaining, but he goes a bit far I think.
  
• Jobs on Flash: Hypocrisy So Thick You Could Cut it with a Knife - Clearly points out the hypocrisy regarding use of Cocoa, H264 being as if not more proprietary than Flash, and iTunes locking users in more than Flash.  How is Apple "open" one might ask?
  
• Though Miffed, Media Companies See Silver Lining In Apple-Adobe Tiff - Rather than pout about it, media companies are looking for ways to make a buck.  Too bad the record and movie industry has fought technology when they could have embraced it and been innovative.
  
• VMforce - Another Cloud Computing Solution for Java - Asks how they get to claim they are the first enterprise Java Cloud when other vendors have been supporting Java in the Cloud for some time.
  
• Report says Indians most hated team - The natural response would have been that everyone hates the "Evil Empire", but no, it is the Indians and the Yankees are only the 5th most hated.

links for 2010-04-29: AWS to be as big as Amazon retail?; Steve Jobs on Flash; Backlash against PowerPoint; Flash History

• Amazon Looks to Widen Lead in Cloud Computing - Opens a new data center in Singapore, but also says "Amazon Web Services can be as big as our retail business, in the fullness of time".
  
• Steve Jobs thoughts on Flash - He makes several good points, but calling Adobe closed and proprietary given Apple's tools target a single platform (vs many) and the closed nature of the App Store (vs anyone can create an app without approval) is a bit of the pot calling the kettle black.  And if third party software not taking advantage of new APIs and features is really so terrible, let the market determine that and decide.
• We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint - "Commanders say that the slides impart less information than a five-page paper can hold, and that they relieve the briefer of the need to polish writing to convey an analytic, persuasive point. Imagine lawyers presenting arguments before the Supreme Court in slides instead of legal briefs."
• Flash History - A good reminder that Flash did fill a need, but he also had a zinger directly at Cupertino: "... a platform with a vendor who gets to decide what’s allowed to run is profoundly uninteresting to me anyhow."
• News Analysis: Salesforce.com and VMware Up The Ante In The Cloud Wars With VMforce - Good summary.  Pits the Java offerings vs Azure.
  

links for 2010-04-27: Promising cancer research; VMware and Salesforce; Gizmodo iPhone raid

• Substance in Breast Milk Kills Cancer Cells, Study Suggests - Research takes awhile, but this sounds like a great start.
  
• VMware, Salesforce announce VMforce platform, bring Java to cloud - More details needed, but sounds like it could be interesting.
  
• Understanding the legal issues that are clouding the Gizmodo iPhone raid - It is somewhat surprising that the police would mess this one up.  Pressure from Apple I'm guessing led to the hasty actions.
  

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 2010-04-21: VMware's "database" play; AT&T buoyed by iPhone; 2010 NFL projected records; Adobe giving up on iPhone

• VMware’s SpringSource Redis and Rabbit acquisitions: A Database Play is Emerging - Just don't call it "database" apparently.  But as Paul Martiz said, "... we are adding to the repertoire of underlying middleware and technologies that we think are going to be needed to generate – to develop a new generation of applications." appears to be a strong plan.
  
• AT&T earnings propelled by iPhone activations, connected devices like e-readers, GPS systems - If this causes them to continue to invest more in their network, all good.
  
• 2010 NFL projected records - With the draft tomorrow, will your favorite team improve?  These projected records serve as a good baseline of what to expect next year and an interesting use of data from last years performance.
• Adobe casts Flash lot with Android; Drops iPhone plans - Will this bite Apple in the future?  "The primary goal of Flash has always been to enable cross browser, platform and device development. The cool web game that you build can easily be targeted and deployed to multiple platforms and devices. However, this is the exact opposite of what Apple wants. They want to tie developers down to their platform, and restrict their options to make it difficult for developers to target other platforms."  Note that I've increasingly seen Flash crashing or hogging CPU on a Mac, but that too could be part of the Apple/Adobe battle.
  

links for 2010-04-14: Twitter ads; VMware/SS acquires RabbitMQ; Apps=Fish, Data=Wine

• Quicktake Analysis: What Twitter’s “Promoted Tweets” Means To The Ecosystem - It will be interesting to see this play out.
  
• Twitter predicts the future? - Great example of how the influx of data we have today can be used.
• SpringSource Acquires RabbitMQ Cloud Messaging Technology - A continuation of their move into the Cloud.
  
• Oracle drops top architect into MySQL skeptic zone - "If Oracle corporate hoped Screven's message would draw applause based on some collective relief it was wrong: just one person in the hushed room clapped - furiously - and this was possibly one of Oracle's employees spotted at the show trying to cheerlead a round of unspontaneous applause."
  
• Infosys lands deal to manage Microsoft's internal IT services - A great win for Infosys.
  
• Why applications are like fish and data is like wine - "But if we look at business architectures data has the longest shelf life, followed by business logic, followed by presentation."
• Bravo Apple - "Finally, Apple is doing away with those arrogant upstarts who think then can write a few lines in a high level language and call it a program."

links for 2010-03-25: Redis or SimpleDB?; Oracle extracting revenue from Sun customers; AWS SDK for Java

• Redis: A Warp Speed database - The author references Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle having databases so VMware needs one, but this move by VMware is squarely aimed at AWS and their SimpleDB IMHO.
  
• Oracle enacts 'all or nothing' hardware support policy - No real surprise here.  Sun customers will likely be paying more than before.
  
• New AWS SDK for Java Developers - New tools for the cloud.