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Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Released for Amazon EC2 – This is also the first Ubuntu release on EC2 that includes officially supported EBS boot AMIs, taking yet another task off my plate and providing a trusted source for this useful image type.
InfoQ: Citrix Offers a Bare-Metal Desktop/Laptop Hypervisor – Citrix XenClient is a bare-metal hypervisor running on desktop PCs using the Intel vPro technology which allows it to create virtual machines taking advantage of 3D and HD graphic capabilities of the graphic card installed on the machine
Raymond James Launches Into SOA by Wall Street & Technology – This ability to reuse services is helping us turn software development into a more repeatable and efficient process. Leveraging SOA is beginning to dramatically accelerate product development enterprisewide.
Larry Ellison On Sun Ex-CEO: Blogging Was Silly Diversion – Global CIO Blog – InformationWeek – The underlying engineering teams are so good, but the direction they got was so astonishingly bad that even they couldn't succeed," said Ellison. "Really great blogs do not take the place of great microprocessors. Great blogs do not replace great software
Why Did SpringSource Buy GemStone: A Discussion with Rod Johnson – I got an opportunity to speak with Rod Johnson, the former CEO of SpringSource, and the current General Manager of the SpringSource product division of VMWare, while he was out doing the press tour, announcing VMWare’s recent acquisition of GemStone
Coding Masters: Google Web Toolkit 2 – The future of web application development? – In my opinion that Google Web Toolkit is the best Java framework for building most web applications in 2010, and probably even in next few years. It combines ease of deployment (just type URL in the browser), portability (almost all web browsers, no extra plugins), ease of use and exten
Citrix fires up desktop virtualization – Computerworld – With a client hypervisor such as XenClient, the VDI server can deliver a copy of the user's virtual machine over the network to the client, where it runs in its own partition
GWT UiBinder : Better Web App Seperation of Concerns – One of the newest features introduced in Google Web Toolkit 2.0 is the “UiBinder“. This new way of building views allows the developer to use a declarative approach when doing the layout of a GWT application.
Google API Library for GWT updated for GWT 2.0 – The Google API Libraries for GWT project allows GWT developers to access some of Google's popular JavaScript APIs. This release includes updates of five libraries: Visualization, Gears, Gadgets, Search, Language, and AjaxLoader.
gwt-google-apis – Project Hosting on Google Code – The Google API Libraries for Google Web Toolkit is a collection of libraries that provide Java language bindings for popular Google JavaScript APIs. These libraries make it quick and easy for developers to use these Google JavaScript APIs with Google Web Toolkit. The libraries are supported by the Google Web Toolkit team.

Cloud.com | The Power Behind Your Cloud – The Cloud.com CloudStack is a comprehensive, open source software solution that accelerates the deployment, management, and configuration of multi-tier and multi-tenant infrastructure cloud services by enterprises and service providers.
Oracle one-ups VMware with Java virtualization – Gained with Oracle's acquisition of BEA Systems, the new Oracle WebLogic Suite Virtualization Option combines the venerable WebLogic Server with the OS-free JRockit Virtual Edition technology. It also includes the new Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder, for identifying and converting existing WebLogic workloads into collections of virtual appliances, or "assemblies."
Android to Apple: Flash works great, just watch this video | DVICE – Google has an update coming for its devices in Android 2.2 that should be unveiled around May 19th, and Ryan Stewart, an "evangelist for Adobe," took it for a spin to show off some Flash goodies.
Google, Verizon in Talks About a Rival to Apple’s iPad – Bloomberg – Google Inc. is in talks with Verizon Wireless to develop a tablet computer that would compete with Apple Inc.’s hit iPad. The tablet will run on Google’s Android operating system
Mozilla’s Plans for Firefox 4: Faster, Sleeker Interface & Better Privacy Controls – Firefox 4 will feature a renewed emphasis on speed. Current projects like JägerMonkey will form the basis of these projects to make Firefox faster
Fragmenting Linux is not the way to beat Apple | The Open Road – CNET News – In an attempt to copycat Apple's hardware-plus-software vertical approach to the mobile market, the Linux industry is fragmenting fast and risks undermining its best chance for beating the iPhone.
Chrome for Open Source Software: Virtualized Java is the Real Deal – VMWare's acquisition of SpringSource has flung the virtualize Java door wide open. And, the biggest challenge we face is not technical. We need cross pollination of Java and virtualization talent.
VMware Acquires Gemstone in Deal To Fortify New Java Platform with Salesforce.com – ReadWriteCloud – VMware is acquiring Gemstone, a Beaverton, Or.-based company that develops real-time caching and distributed database technologies that serves as an in-memory data fabric for masive data processing and transaction environments
What iPads Did To My Family – Chuck’s Blog – I now have this strange love/hate relationship with Apple. And I think it won't be long before I'm forced to make another trip back to the Apple store.
Netflix migrating more infrastructure to Amazon Web Services | ZDNet – According to Amazon, Netflix, which has been using the e-commerce giant’s Web services for a year, will expand its usage and migrate more of its infrastructure to the cloud.

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