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In the early days of computing, you couldn’t run an IBM System 34 program on a Digital Equipment Corp. VAX mini-computer. Software had to be written for a specific operating environment, which often included hardware. In today’s business world all that has changed thanks to the influence of IBM and later Microsoft with the advent [...]

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Vendors can build revenues from services and subscriptions, while CIOs, CEOs and the businesses they lead are freed from the “slavery” of traditional software procurement processes, said Sun’s Simon Phipps, speaking at a Sun developers conference in New York City.
In the midst of industry speculation that IBM might buy Sun [...]

Creating a business around free software is hardly a new idea: Cygnus Solutions, based around Stallman’s GCC, was set up in 1989. But here’s one with a trendy twist: a company based on the open source *cloud computing* app Hadoop, an Apache Project:
Hadoop is a software platform that lets one easily write and run applications [...]

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Cloudera is the quintessential Silicon Valley story.
Three of the top engineers from Google, Yahoo and Facebook have teamed up with an ex-Oracle executive to tackle the problems inherent in quickly analyzing big piles of data. On Monday, they’re revealing a commercial product based on the open source software Hadoop, which provides the analytical [...]

SugarCRM, the open source customer relationship management software vendor, is giving its user base a sneak preview into its next generation of products.
At its third annual SugarCon gathering Monday, the company previewed new CRM features, including an improved Web services framework, additional Cloud Connectors, and mobile customization features.
SugarCRM Previews Upcoming Cloud, CRM Features | Cloud [...]

The Cloud Tools project, hosted on Google Code, is a prime example of the emerging trend of open-source application developers targeting the cloud and looking at services such as Amazon Web Services solutions and Google App Engine to host their applications. Cloud Tools is a set of tools for deploying, managing and testing Java Enterprise [...]

Open source developers embrace in mass Google’s Cloud-based offerings, while steering clear of what Microsoft has to offer. The face-off between Microsoft and Google has put the two companies in the position of making inroads into each other’s traditional territory. While Google is moving onto the desktop with offerings such as the Chrome browser, Microsoft [...]

Evans Data has published the results of a 360-person survey suggesting that 40 percent of developers working on open-source projects plan to deploy applications via the cloud, as OStatic reports.
The big winner here? Google. Twenty-nine percent of developers surveyed plan to use Google App Engine to deploy their applications, while 15 percent will look to [...]

Cloud computing is gaining strong momentum in the open source community, with close half of all professionals saying they will offer their apps as web services via cloud providers. Google’s Apps Engine, so far, is the top cloud provider-of-choice, says a survey by Evans Data.
The Evans Data’s Open Source Development Survey was conducted in November [...]

Cloud-computing platform vendor Joyent said Wednesday it is buying startup Reasonably Smart, a maker of a “direct, open-source competitor” to Google’s App Engine framework for quickly building and deploying Web applications that run on Google’s infrastructure.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Like Amazon Web Services and others, the Quebec-based Joyent sells scalable computing infrastructure. [...]