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Can you really live without Microsoft Office?
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| And the desktop Linux community is hoping that the emerging class of
| ultra-low-cost PCs and laptops may jump-start adoption -- and a need for
| Linux-based office productivity software. Thus, the time is right to see if
| you can live without Microsoft Office.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/15/29FE-dumping-microsoft-office_1.html
Microsoft tries to counter this, without much success:
Poll: Unhappy With Microsoft's SaaS News? You're Not Alone
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| Microsoft has a lot of work to do to convince channel partners that its move
| into Software as a Service is as good for them as it is for Microsoft.
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http://www.crn.com/it-channel/209000210
Recent:
Clarizen Touts ProjectMail SaaS as Effective Alternative to Microsoft Project
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| The company’s president and founder, Charley Ellison, told TMCnet in an
| interview that Microsoft Project “had been overkill,” leading employees to
| develop their own band-aid Excel spreadsheets and communicate with one
| another through e-mail – an inefficient exercise.
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http://outbound-call-center.tmcnet.com/topics/hosted-call-center/articles/30409-clarizen-touts-projectmail-saas-as-effective-alternative-microsoft.htm
http://tinyurl.com/589a5v
Down To Business: As IBM Reaches For Cloud, Where Next Microsoft?
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| IBM's alignment with Google around Linux and Internet standards should have
| its longtime rival sweating sans Yahoo.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/data/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207601200
SaaS, Open Source and the Migration of Burden
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| Just the week before I had a reporter ask me how Linux is going to deal with
| the threat of cloud computing. The threat? I told her that virtually all of
| the major cloud computing initiatives (except Microsoft’s) are built on
| Linux. (There is a potential displacement there for Linux distribution
| vendors but that’s another topic.) Linux as a platform is the enabling
| backbone of software as a service and cloud computing.
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http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/amanda/2008/05/08/saas-open-source-and-the-migration-of-burden/
Eucalyptus: An Unsung Open Source Infrastructure for Cloud Computing
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| According to Rich Wolski, some of the key features of Eucalyptus are:
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| * -- It installs automatically as part of a Rocks 5 installation
| * -- It is modular and extensible, implemented entirely using open-source
| web service tools
| * -- It is interface-compatible with Amazon EC2 and uses the EC2 tools
| directly
| * -- Version 1.0 implements the EC2 features with the exception of static
| IPs address (planned for a later release)
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http://ostatic.com/164044-blog/eucalyptus-an-unsung-open-source-infrastructure-for-cloud-computing#rss
Lost in the Clouds
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| Just as the open source LAMP stack created the current wave of Web 2.0
| companies, so free software will run the magic machinery keeping clouds
| aloft.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/04/lost-in-clouds.html
Can Microsoft be beaten in the cloud?
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| The spat seems to be over for now, but the fight with Phoenix is instructive.
| Microsoft is far smarter than we generally give it credit. The company keeps
| an eagle eye on its desktop prize, and is unlikely to allow anyone to build
| rival technology there. The only way to compete with Microsoft on the desktop
| is not on the desktop - it's in the cloud.
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9945769-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Microsoft’s Hailstorm reappearing in the cloud?
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| Joel calls the creators of these efforts “architecture astronauts.” They
| generate plenty of hype, not only on Microsoft’s part, but across the
| industry in general around this next permutation of Cloud Computing.
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| But it’s not the hype that has Joel really ticked off — it’s the fact that a
| whole generation of valuable and highly paid software architects and
| programmers are being sucked up into this vortex, “working on hopeless and
| useless architecture astronomy.”
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=1103
Why Microsoft's approach to data centers won't work
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| The problem is that each UPS, in the process of "conditioning" the power,
| also creates "harmonics" that bounce back up the supply line and can "crap up
| power for everyone else," Baker said.
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| Harmonics is a well-known issue that's been managed in other contexts, so
| Baker isn't saying the problem is unsolvable. But, he argues, the extra
| infrastructure needed to alleviate the harmonics generated by 220 UPSs -- the
| number of containers Microsoft thinks it can fit inside the Chicago data
| center -- could easily negate the potential ROI from using containers.
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http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php/id;1365080214;pp;6;fp;4;fpid;337468494
Related:
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| If I ask you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
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| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
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