In many ways, cloud computing and SOA are one in the same, or intersect to cover much of the same ground. Dave Linthicum drives this point home, providing evidence that cloud computing is resurrecting interest in SOA. As Dave so emphatically put it in his latest post here at ebizQ: “There are those out there that like to remove SOA from the
cloud computing discussion, and that’s a huge mistake… I suspect I’ll
be blogging a lot on this issue during the remainder of the year.”

When looking at cloud, of course, look at platform services. In a new ebizQ feature, Sam Charrington provided a good overview of cloud computing and Platform as a Service (PaaS). “There is little doubt that the various forms of cloud computing will play an increasingly important role for organizations seeking to gain a competitive advantage,” he says. “Much of this attention will be directed towards cloud platforms in 2010. Compared to IaaS, PaaS provides a higher level of abstraction, decreased operating costs, and increased scalability without the operational complexity that accompanies IaaS.”

In his latest post, Michael Poulin talked about the intangible value of services, such as consumer satisfaction and loyalty. This is not just something line-of-business managers should be worrying about, he says. “Developers in IT that they are as responsible for these values as their business functional and marketing departments, that intangible service values ought to be embedded into the automated business solutions,” he says, backing up his assertions with a real-life example of a bank customer who needed to pay bi-national taxes (poor guy).

The business user is what we’re doing all this service-orienting for, and Tom Allanson provides pointers on how to respect the business user amidst all the project work needed to stand up applications. Remember, he says, “business users are simply professionals whose expertise
is in a subject other than programming.”

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So basically I go to a business, see if they want a website. If they do, somehow I can refer them to a company and make a certain amount per sale.

Do you have any companies in mind?

Where can I buy a domain from that allows me to use Frontpage to design the site?

Thanks

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by Matt Asay

Companies and their affiliated communities often sit uneasily together, awkward partners at the software dance. To balance the two, companies often seek to reduce corporate control of community through open-source licensing, but this strategy may be diluted by the common requirement to require community contributors to sign contribution agreements.

Nothing could be worse for the formation of true, code-contributing communities, according to Brian Aker, former director of architecture at MySQL:

[R]equiring contributor agreements destroyed outside MySQL development to the kernel, and left MySQL in a position where no substantial, or many, contributions ever occurred.

And yet most people would point to MySQL’s community (as Microsoft’s Dan Jones does) as a key reason for its success.

Perhaps they’re talking about different kinds of community?

Of course they are, and both kinds are important. MySQL attracted a broad-based user community, one filled with developers who modified and embedded MySQL to meet a vast array of different needs. Did it have a solid base of outside contributors who wrote the core of the MySQL database. No. But at tens of millions of downloads each year and a final sale price of $1 billion to Sun, few in the MySQL community are likely to complain.

The reality is that very few open-source projects succeed in attracting and marshaling significant outside contributions. Linux, Eclipse, and Mozilla all do, and perhaps for reasons I’ve identified before, but they are the exceptions to the rule.

Even so, it’s surprising just how significant the communities are around an increasing number of enterprise open-source projects, which communities include both users and developers, a significant number of whom actively contribute code to these enterprise applications. Who would imagine a community of millions forming around developing and using software designed to help the world’s largest enterprises solve some of their biggest problems? In other words, helping the Man feed…the Man?

Strange, but true.

Jaspersoft today announced some remarkable community numbers. More interesting, however, is that Jaspersoft isn’t alone in this.

Let’s run the community numbers for a few of the more successful open-source application companies, Jaspersoft, Alfresco, SugarCRM, and Zimbra:

* Zimbra gave me the number of active forum registrations, which is arguably a better metric than raw forum/documentation registrations, which is what I was able to collect from the other companies.

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Downloading entire websites. I was able to download my main website that has its own domain name. But I have old geocities website I wish to keep and download entirely. Since geocities will be closing this year.
But my software that downlaods entire websites cant work because it is like a subdomain to geocities. IE www.geocities.com/usernID/
They blocked FTP also.

Is there any way I could downlaod my entire geocities website!

In a speech at the Brookings Institution Tuesday CEO Paul Otellini said that Intel is going to put $200 million in a new “Invest in American Technology Fund.”
Twenty-four VCs have earmarked another $3.3 billion of not really new money for infusion into U.S. technology companies over the next two years targeting IT, green technology and biotechnology.
It’s meant to boost American competitiveness and create jobs.
Intel’s got commitments from Google, Microsoft, Dell, GE, Adobe, Yahoo, Autodesk, Accenture, Broadcom, Cisco and five other companies to create 10,500 new jobs this year and hire new college graduates.

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I have an idea to start a service of my own, I want to start this on the web..but as a first step I want to know if people actually need what I am offering as a service.

Can anyone help me how to ascertain that?

Can the owner or the web portal where some one posts another company’s services liable?

One with a blog and a very large variety of themes.