Latest Links: Sun and clouds
- Forbes.com: A Rorschach Test for IBM and Sun
"Even as Sun has stiffened into a slow-moving, self-entangled behemoth over the past decade, IBM has gradually shifted into the nimble mode of a start-up." - IBM's bid to acquire Sun might cost jobs - The Denver Post
"Sun is known for having a lot of cool technology but not much recognition in the market for it." - ZDNet.com - IBM's potential purchase of Sun: Here's why it makes sense
"One problem: There's a lot of software overlap here. In databases, IBM has DB2 and Sun has MySQL" - Javalobby - IBM in Talks to Buy Sun?
(in the comments) "Sun's energy would have been much better spent investing in writing proper Eclipse plugins for things such as Python/Groovy/Matisse/JavaFX/etc. instead of pushing their own IDE" - SAS to build $70 million cloud computing facility
"the facility will be built to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards for water and energy conservation" - Atlassian Developer Blog - Customizing your cloud
"we've released support for running builds in the cloud with the Elastic Bamboo feature" - Tim Bray The Sun Cloud
"We're going to be rolling out a Sun Cloud offering later this year"