Xen Orchestra: a Web interface for XCP – blog.xen.org.

As NoSQL takes root in the enterprise, it’s becoming clear that developers will need to gain greater familiarity with both the concepts behind it, as well as the various products that support it. via NoSQL Options Compared | Dr Dobb’s.

Choosing a Java scripting language: Round two – JavaWorld.

This site is a nightly development build of Apache Bloodhound, a tool created for issue tracking and managing of software projects. This site is reset once a day so feel free to create or edit tickets and wiki pages and play about. If you are interested in the stable release, a ​demo of that is …

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Attack The Tax – Downloads.

There has been a long running debate in the Application Platform Services Group here at Burton Group between the REST people on one side and the SOAP people on the other. For the most part it mirrors the external debate. In one recent exchange, while discussing the complexity of SOAP and the web services framework, …

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Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. CloudStack is used by a number of service providers to offer public cloud services, and by many companies to provide an on-premises (private) cloud offering, …

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LMDE is a Linux Mint distribution, containing all of the nice Mint tools (installer, updater, menus and other utilities), plus lots of preloaded and preconfigured packages, but built on top of Debian GNU/Linux, rather than Ubuntu as the numbered/named Mint distributions (currently 14/Nadia). via A look at Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 201303 | ZDNet.

The next version of Slackware Linux will drop MySQL in favour of MariaDB. The change was announced on the front page of the site and in the project’s change log by Patrick Volkerding. Slackware is following a trend within Linux distributions of switching away from Oracle’s MySQL to the MariaDB Foundation’s MariaDB via Slackware Linux …

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Amazon Cloud Storage Clone Goes Open Source | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com.