• Using Amazon EC2 to Thwart Crappy Internal IT Services - "The way to prevent users from doing these, and other “shadow IT” behaviors is to provide the IT services that help your users be awesome!"
• Microsoft's embrace of MySQL could kill it - Microsoft supports MySQL in Azure, similar to Amazon RDS.  "After all, the protections that the GNU General Public License (GPL) and other open-source licenses offer in the traditional software world are essentially meaningless in the networked world, where software is used to create services, but isn't actually distributed."  Will we see more use of the Affero GPL?
• Future Directions of Wolfram Alpha - If you haven't tried it out, you should.
• Can One Bad Apple Ruin it for the Middle Men? - "Is it so difficult to imagine a world in which Apple could officially enable jailbroken applications with the caveat that support ends the minute that takes place? It shouldn’t be, but probably is."

• Other governments are "Going Google," too - not just L.A. - The trend continues.
• AT&T plots compute cloud similar to Amazon Web Services - It is great to see an open API like Sun's Cloud Platform being used.
• GlassFish powers Egyptian seafood? - Entertaining at least, the power of the internet and a cool logo.

• Giz Explains: Android, and How It Will Take Over the World - Great read for those interested in more about Android, particularly some of the comments.
• Motorola's Droid review: It's the best phone on Verizon - Sounds interesting, but not yet matching the iPhone as an "iPod".  Give it another year (when my AT&T contract is up) and I may be ready to leave my iPhone.

• Linux owns 32 percent of netbook market, says study - "... this is a far cry from the 96 percent advantage Microsoft claimed to have enjoyed in April."
• Applications I Can’t Live Without, Volume 1: YubNub - Command line for the Web.

• Turning Twitter into an application server - "... Twitter plays the role of the enterprise service bus and the Twitter API is the broker between data sources ...".  I suggested as much a few months ago.
• Naked Win 7 still vulnerable to most viruses - Hard to believe this is still the case.  "User Account Control did block one sample; however, its failure to block anything else just reinforces my warning prior to the Windows 7 launch that UAC's default configuration is not effective at protecting a PC from modern malware".
• AT&T sues Verizon Wireless, calls map ad "misleading" but doesn't dispute accuracy - Odd course of action.
• Google praises Microsoft's HTML 5 thoughts - After complaining about their lack of participation, they had to praise it, but will their participation help or just slow the process down?
  

• Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less Than Free” Business Model - Changing the rules with mapping data and more.
• In recession, VoIP makes strong case for cutting your home landline - I was using CallVantage until their service was terminated, now using VoIPo and it works well for less than $10/month.
• Time to upgrade open source perceptions of Gartner - Gartner coming around on open-source?

• Ubuntu 9.10 = easiest, cheapest upgrade ever - I'll be upgrading this weekend.
• Towards a Permission-based Web. Wherefore Net Neutrality? Or: Maybe Open Source Wins After All - Thought provoking article.

• DOD open-sources more than 1M lines of code - I mentioned the DoD encouraging using open-source a few days ago and now this, they are contributing to open-source too.
• Chrome OS Beta Downloads - Hope to try it out shortly.
• Android gets a PowerPC port - Part of the reason why Android has an advantage over the iPhone.  It can run and be supported on far more than just Apple's hardware/phones.
• Gallery: Best iPhone business apps - And Apple's advantage, a head start in apps for business.

Yesterday, we released new versions of two of the products in our GlassFish Portfolio, delivering on what we announced a few weeks ago at Oracle Open World.

The first is GlassFish Enterprise Server 2.1.1.  This is a minor release but includes some important bug fixes and updates to several component packages including JSF, Grizzly, Jersey, and  OpenMQ.  More details are on the community wiki.

Building upon GlassFish Enterprise Server 2.1.1 is GlassFish Communications Server v2.  Built in open-source in the Sailfin community, this product provides a robust Java EE and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) convergence platform and in this release adds SIP session replication, Diameter support, and more.  Eduardo has a nice summary in The Aquarium.

You may download GlassFish Enterprise Server 2.1.1 or GlassFish Communications Server v2 so give them a try.  If you want more info or are interested in getting commercial support, added features, and more, contact us or try our online chat with someone that can help you.

• L.A. votes to "Go Google"; pressure shifts to Google and "the cloud" - The city of L.A. "jumped off the cliff first".
• Announcing Google Maps Navigation for Android 2.0 - So long standalone GPS devices.
• Five interesting new details about Verizon's Moto Droid - Competition for the iPhone is good.

• Expanding the Cloud: The Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) - MySQL isn't that hard to install and configure already, but this makes it even easier providing easy provisioning, management, and backup.  More details here.
• SAP Joins Apache Communities, Extending Commitment to Open Source Technologies - It is good to see increased validation of open-source, but it is easy to commit to open-source projects that are already "proven and broadly used".  How about some real innovation and contribution?
• Defense Department issues new open-source guidance - What was a encouraging statement to use open-source before now gets stronger.

• SOA Manifesto unveiled - Nothing revolutionary, but reaffirms many of the practical SOA ideas.
• Salesforce, Adobe bring Flash to Force.com - You should expect to see more arrangements like this.
• Brian Aker asks Richard Stallman about MySQL and the GPL at foss.my 2009 - Stallman is a piece of work.  He criticizes Brian for twisting his words (not sure he was, just asking clarifying questions), but goes way beyond twisting Oracle's words in making the statement that they just want to kill MySQL.

• Jaguar Land Rover switching to Google Apps - It clearly makes sense for smaller organizations, but 15,000 users is sizable.
• Manage your tasks with Google - A nice addition.

• How did IT fall so far behind the tech curve? - It is true, the future of IT needs to be a hybrid on several levels from on-premise vs SaaS and IT being the top-down dictator vs user-defined bottom up approaches.
• Motorola goes all-in for Google Android - While I think my iPhone is a fantastic device, especially when jailbroken, it is closed, proprietary, locked in to AT&T (in the US) and a host of other negatives so I'm definitely interested in how Android matures over the next year which will be about the time my AT&T contract is up.
• SaaS: Shelfware as a service? - SaaS is not a cure all (no duh!).

• Street View: We can trike wherever you like - Trail view?  River view?  Someday, house view?  Send your suggestions in.
• T-Mobile Data Loss Falsely Reflects on Cloud Computing - "We need to stop calling everything that does not exist within our firewalls 'the cloud.'"  Well said.
• EU's MySQL inquiry may backfire for open source - Well written article, but is MySQL an exception or will what the EU is doing become the new rule?