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- rPath to OEM Novell's SUSE Linux to reduce legal worries
- rPath to OEM Novell's SUSE Linux to reduce legal worriesPointy haired CEO?'patent protection' indeed. Hook, line and sinker.
- Tags: rPath, Novell SUSE LINUX, Novell Inc., Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-04-22
- rPath to OEM Novell's SUSE Linux to reduce legal worries
- rPath has entered a pact with Novell that makes creating a virtual appliance easier for developers – and corporate lawyers. As part of the deal, which was announced yesterday, rPath will OEM Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server beginning in August, said Bill Marshall, the company's CEO,...
- Tags: Novell Inc., SuSE Linux, SuSE, rPath, rPath Linux, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, UNIX, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- SaaS and the packaged software appliance
- Delivering software as an appliance brings many of the same benefits as delivering software as a service, as I've described in my previous posting about Socialtext's experience, Can the appliance put SaaS on-premise? For similar reasons to Socialtext, Zimbra, which provides a messaging platform that competes with Exchange, also likes...
- Tags: Architecture
- Blog posts 2007-06-15
- Partners use Amazon EC2 and S3 to move the needle on infrastructure as a service
- Several announcements show that the Amazon infrastructure-as-a-service model is gaining serious traction, helping todays start-ups/ISVs/SaaS providers quickly create consumer and business services without an IT capital spending budget.LignUp and rPath are leveraging Amazons Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Service (S3) to historically relieve developers of infrastructure worries and...
- Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VOIP, Web services, partnership, EC2, Amazon.com Inc., rPath, LignUp Commmunications Applications Server, rBuilder, ISV, developer, S3 Inc., voice
- Blog posts 2007-03-22
- Breaking the ice
- Do you ever wish you didn't have to port your application and test it on several different operating systems? Are you intrigued with the simplicity of "hardware appliances" like NetApp filers and the Google Search Appliance but don't want to get in the business of selling hardware? rPath would...
- Tags: rPath, Project Icebreaker
- Blog posts 2006-08-15
- A database without an operating system?
- Not really. But as far as customers can tell, maybe.rPath and Ingres have integrated a database and a Linux installation so it looks to the customer like a single install. The result is what rPath calls a "software appliance," and this concept is at the heart of rBuilder 2.0, which...
- Tags: Ingres, rPath
- Blog posts 2006-08-15
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- News to know: Microsoft Mesh; Microhoo; OLPC; Patents; Linked data
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Ten things to know about Microsoft's Live Mesh Ryan Stewart: Silverlight and the future core of Microsoft Screen shots: Microsoft's Live Mesh right Images: Hands-on with Live Mesh Techmeme ...
- Tags: Patent, Dana Blankenhorn, Microsoft Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Linux, Open Source, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- RightScale makes EC2 a better fit for SaaS
- Amazon.com CTO Dr Werner Vogels' presentation at SIIA's OnDemand Summit see my previous posting was punctuated by a demonstration performed by Thorsten von Eicken, CTO of RightScale, a start-up that provides a platform to manage cloud computing on EC2. Von Eicken has an impeccable SaaS pedigree, having been chief architect...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Server, Amazon.com Inc., Service, RightScale, EC2, RightScale Software, Crystal Reports Implementation, Software As A Service (SaaS), Servers, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2007-11-20
- Amazon EC2 offers a shortcut to SaaS
- ISVs that want to deliver software-as-a-service have to learn a lot of new skills, not least how to build and operate a high-availability, shared-services data center infrastructure. Anyone who heard this month's keynote presentation at SIIA's OnDemand Summit by Amazon.com CTO Dr Werner Vogels will have a keen appreciation of...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Data Center, Amazon.com Inc., Infrastructure, Service, IBM Corp., Amazon EC2, Dr Werner Vogels, Software As A Service (SaaS), Data Centers, Storage, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Data Management, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2007-11-20
- Oracle stair-steps to on-demand
- Oracle president Charles Phillips took some time out this afternoon to give me an overview of the company's software-as-a-service architecture, following up on the earlier discussion with fellow Enterprise Irregular bloggers. Oracle is concerned that glib assertions and misconceptions about multi-tenancy are causing people to undervalue its own expertise...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Database, Pod, Oracle Corp., On-demand, Customer, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2007-11-12
- Zenoss, rPath join on open source systems management appliances
- Open source systems management ISV Zenoss will reveal this week a partnership with rPath that will enable it to deliver VMware appliances in the VMware marketplace. The Annapolis, Maryland software company released its first set of application, server and network management appliances – one a hardware appliance,...
- Tags: Appliance, VMware Inc., Systems Management, Zenoss, Open Source, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- Hobson's EMT saves time and money with Virtual Iron
- I had an opportunity to ask Patrick McFadin, Director of Engineering, Hobsons EMT, a few questions about how his organization is using tools from Virtual Iron. A highly edited, slightly sanitized version of our conversation follows.Please tell me who you are and a bit about your organization?Patrick is the Director of Engineering...
- Tags: 64-bit, Dan Kusnetzky, Virtual Iron, Hobson, EMT
- Blog posts 2007-08-10
- Do We Need Operating Systems?
- RedHat will announce RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 today, at a dicey time for the industry.Wall Street has begun to sour on Linux as a business. Douglas MacIntyre of 24/7 Wall Street is among the disenchanted."Linux has been a bust," he wrote last week. Total revenues for RedHat and Novell combined...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Red Hat Inc., Billy Marshall, operating system
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- Virtual Appliances
- I believe virtualization will have a big impact on regular computer users as well as how companies will do their computing. Lately, Ive been thinking quite a bit about virtual appliances. What got me going was the beta 2 release of...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Servers, virtual appliance
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- Open source is a development model
- The other day I quoted Bill Soward of Adaptive Planning as saying that open source is a sales model. Today Billy Marshall of rPath called to object strongly, calling it a development model. Marshall lays out the argument on his own blog and elaborated in our talk today. "As a...
- Tags: Billy Marshall, open source, sales
- Blog posts 2006-12-13
- Virtual appliances and the changing role of operating systems
- A few months ago I found myself waiting for a flight at the Burbank airport with Mendel Rosenblum. He is a co-founder of VMware and chief scientist at the company and an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford. VMware was founded in 1998 by Rosenblum and...
- Tags: operating system
- Blog posts 2006-11-01
- Live from BarCampRDU
- 8:00am: I'm sitting in a room with about 150 guys and a couple women at the Red Hat campus in Raleigh, NC. So what would get me up so early in the morning on a Saturday? BarCampRDU. According to the web site, a Bar Camp is "an unconference where...
- Tags: Google Web, Google Web Toolkit
- Blog posts 2006-07-22
- Dell CTO scores A on virtualization test
- If you ask me and maybe VMware president Diane Green, Dell CTO Kevin Kettler has got virtualization right. According to a News.com report by Stephen Shankland, yesterday, Kettler told a LinuxWorld Boston crowd:There are lot of players that have been entrenched in the virtualization market" that need to understand...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., VMware Inc., Xen
- Blog posts 2006-04-06
- Software, as a service, on a client
- Want to rent out a Linux application that can run on an ordinary Windows box with VMWare?Keith Boswell right has a deal for you.Boswell is vp-marketing with rPath, a company that has turned $6.4 million in venture capital into rBuilder, which does what I just described.Let's let Boswell explain it...
- Tags: Linux
- Blog posts 2006-02-22
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