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Amazon is hitting hard in it's cloud offering , now they are offering DB cloud hosting using MySQL database nevertheless the extra large Memory models cloud computers the strange thing for me that we did not hear from SUN, although 1) they have their own cloud 2) they are the owner of the Enterprise Version of MySQL ?! This is the announcement from Amazon , quoted " We are excited to announce the public beta of Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), a new web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale relational databases in the cloud. Amazon RDS gives you all the features and capabilities of a MySQL database, while managing time-consuming database administration tasks and providing the cost-efficiency of running in the AWS cloud. We're also excited to announce lower prices for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances and a new family of Amazon EC2 High-Memory Instances, tailored for customers wanting to run their own large databases and

The Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Release Candidate is now available to download. Please use Torrent when Applicable Link is h3r3

Canonical the business arm beyond Ubuntu Linux us hitting private cloud capabilities in an upgrade to its Ubuntu Linux OS being announced. Available for free download by October 29 2009, Ubuntu 9.10 Server Edition introduces UEC (Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud), an open source cloud computing environment based on the same APIs as Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud). Businesses can take advantage of private clouds, Canonical said. Ubuntu 9.10 BETA is available h3r3 "Essentially, what this release is doing is targeting cloud computing, in particular," said Steve George, director of support and services for Canonical. With version 9.10, users can take core ideas of cloud computing, including agility, resource pooling, and actualization, in deploying clouds on their own hardware, George said. Users can set up 10 to 15 private servers and use the same APIs as in Amazon EC2, thus leveraging the same capabilities they would use with Amazon, George said. Applications can be taken off the Ama

If you have an Openwrt brcm 2.4 installed on your router and you are not able to install any application and getting 404 error using ipkg install xyz. That is because OpenWRT guys changed the URL of the snapshot Please use src snapshots http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/brcm-2.4/packages/ INSTEAD of src snapshots http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/brcm-2.4/packages this is could be done by editing /etc/ipkg.conf file and add the link http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/brcm-2.4/packages/

MIT University one of the best places allover the world , Now they have MIT Tech TV Link is h3r3

For its first edition, Open World Forum had launched an initiative of prospective unique in the world: the 2020 FLOSS Roadmap. This Roadmap is a projection of the influences that will affect FLOSS until 2020, with descriptions of all FLOSS-related trends as anticipated by an international workgroup of 40 contributors over this period of time and highlights 7 predictions and 8 recommendations. 2009 edition of Open World Forum gave place to an update of this Roadmap reflecting the evolutions noted during the last months. Press Release is h3r3 Executive Summary is h3r3 Seven Themes and Key Areas the the road Map discuss are : Theme 1: Public policies: promoting sustainable development of shared resources Theme 2: FLOSS: the key to future innovation and competitive differentiation? Theme 3: Ensuring sustainability for FLOSS developer communities and business ecosystems Theme 4: Technological and economic breakthroughs: challenge or opportunity for FLOSS? Theme 5: IT 3.0: towards new govern

For those who are not fully aware , what is Hulu ? Hulu is a website that offers commercial-supported streaming video of TV shows and movies from NBC, Fox, ABC and many other networks and studios. Hulu videos are currently offered only to users in the United States. Hulu provides video in Flash Video format, including many films and shows that are available in 360p and the considered high-definition format of 480p. Hulu also provides web syndication services for other websites including AOL, MSN, MySpace, Facebook, Yahoo!, and Comcast's fancast.com. Hulu Desktop Player is a standalone program that allows users to watch Hulu programming without using their web browser. The program uses a 10-foot user interface and is designed to be compatible with existing computer remote controls. It requires a Flash player. Hulu just released Hulu Desktop for Linux could be found h3r3

London Stock Exchange (LSE) is moving from the Microsoft .Net-based TradElect to the GNU/Linux-based MillenniumIT system, is just another win for free software. References : ComputerWorld & IBS Reference

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The African FLOSS Business Models Syllabus consists of 6 modules, spread along three thematic parts. Created by Content Creation Community (3C) link to Community Process and names could be found h3r3 . FOSS Business Syllabus is one of the initiatives supported by FOSSFA (FOSS For Afirca) and INWENT Module 1: Introduction to Emerging FLOSS Business Models Module 2: African Business Models: Case Studies Module 3: Communicating FLOSS Module 4: Introduction to General Business Skills Module 5: FLOSS Specific Business Knowledge and Skills. Module 6: FLOSS Training You can download and/or read all 6 modules from any of the URL above