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Quoted: As part of Microsoft’s commitment to Interoperability, this open source project is an effort bridge PHP developers to Windows Azure. PHPAzure is an open source project to provide software development kit for Windows Azure and Windows Azure Storage – Blobs, Tables & Queues

Quoted: We also hear that second half next year, Microsoft will announce their own Windows Azure on Premises solution, they’re already working with hardware manufactures (we know DELL for sure, but there are more). After the release of Windows Azure, the new Cloud Operating System at PDC this year (press release here), Microsoft is following their business plan to offer what they do best - software - to enterprises.

In theory, this can do an hour's worth of work in one second. That is a lot of horsepower. Glad I'm not paying the power bill.

Quoted: • 4000 nodes
• 2 quad core Xeons @ 2.5ghz per node
• 4x1TB SATA disks per node
• 8G RAM per node
• 1 gigabit ethernet on each node
• 40 nodes per rack
• 4 gigabit ethernet uplinks from each rack to the core (unfortunately a misconfiguration, we usually do 8 uplinks)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 5)
• Sun Java JDK 1.6.0_05-b13
• So that's well over 30,000 cores with nearly 16PB of raw disk!

Poor Stallman. He's just clueless about the real world.

Quoted: The concept of using web-based programs like Google's Gmail is "worse than stupidity", according to a leading advocate of free software.

Web-based programs like Google's Gmail will force people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that will cost more and more over time, according to the free software campaigner.

"It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign," he told The Guardian.

So how does Digg handle 200+ million page views a month?

This is a nice way to segment the cloud computing industry.

Quoted: This insightful post on the RightScale blog recently got me thinking. The term Cloud Computing is much too vague. People want and need slots or segments

Quoted: At Pi we are working on simple metaphors for managing all your information - your Personal Information – all the information that you have access to, send, receive, search for, and publish.

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