We have our winners for the PAAS Galeggsy Egg Decorating Kits. I want to say a big thank you to PAAS, our sponsor, and thank you to everyone who participated. The winner were selected by Random.org. Congratulations to the winning comments: Homemom3 who said, “Okay here’s my entry I have four kid...

Geva Perry posts an interesting piece about perspectives on how the cloud pricing models might affect application architectures.  One of the more interesting thoughts this kicked off for me is that a well-instrumented, granular IaaS or PaaS platform offers the application architect and the IT m...

There are a slew of Cloud Computing Conferences and Camps scheduled between March and July 2009. Some of the more notable ones are: March - June - There are 11 Cloud Camps scheduled worldwide in the next 4 months. March 30 - April 1 - The 2nd annual Cloud Computing Conference and Expo will be held i...

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (MARKET WIRE) Pan American Silver Corp. (TSX: PAA)(NASDAQ: PAAS) today reported that it has filed with the applicable Canadian securities regulatory authorities on SEDAR its 2008 audited financial statements and management's discussion and analysis in relation thereto (th...

In our latest podcast I talk with Michael Crandell, CEO and Founder of RightScale. We discuss the Santa Barbara (California) based company, its place in the Cloud Computing stack above infrastructure providers such as Amazon, GoGrid and Rackspace, and consider the ways in which it is evolving as the...

We’re giving away 5 PAAS Galeggsy egg decorating kits to 5 lucky Play Library readers. Galeggsy is one of the new PAAS Easter egg decorating kits premiering this year. I talked about several of the new PAAS kits the other day, but I didn’t talk about Galeggsy. So here’s the scoop. The Galeggsy...

Whether you’ve heard of it or not, Platform as a Service, or PaaS, is an emerging trend that is quickly giving way to thousands of mashups across the web and corporate Intranets. A new article in the E-Commerce Times entitled “The PaaS Era, Part 1: Everybody’s Pounding Out Mashups&...

In his latest post on Coghead’s demise, Phil argues that: “What this highlights is the lack of any standard for transferring not just data but application logic between such platforms.� My argument is that those standards already exist and are widely adopted: “Standards for capturing applica...

SAP Acquires Coghead IP Dennis Howlett analyzes SAP acquisition of Cogheads Intellectual Property. Dennis opines that Caspio and Intuit are in the running for acquiring Cogheads customer base. Oracle Gains The Most From Amazon and IBM Deal Dennis Gardner’s interesting take on how Oracle comes ...

There is a well-founded skeptical question as to whether "cloud computing" is just the 2008 re-labeling of "grid", "utility" and "network computing". Google's Urs Hoelzle pokes at that a bit with a search trends chart he shows during talks (copied here). I hav...