My daily readings 05/11/2008
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synthesizer
and decision maker. As the Linux project has grown, Linus Torvalds has gathered
a hierarchy of talented software programmers around him to help manage the
crowd
and its contributions. It’s not a stretch to say that the Linux bureaucracy
forms a cathedral that coordinates the work of the bazaar and molds it into
a unified product.”
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Google App Engine: Cloud Control to Major Tom - ReadWriteWeb
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In that respect Google App Engine is more like the so-called “Platform-as-a-Service” (PaaS) apps like Bungee Labs, which we profiled firstly in April 2007 and then more recently in February when it launched a new version. Other PaaS contenders include Salesforce.com’s Force.com platform (nicely summarised by Dan Farber) and Morfik’s Ajax platform.
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How Cloud & Utility Computing Are Different - GigaOM
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The big news is for application developers and IT operations. Done right, cloud computing allows them to develop, deploy and run applications that can easily grow capacity (scalability), work fast (performance), and never — or at least rarely — fail (reliability), all without any concern as to the nature and location of the underlying infrastructure.
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