Computer Software

Computer Orchestration Tips and Tricks--New from PC Publishing: A ...

Sebastopol, CA—Using modern technology, composers no longer need to wait until an orchestra plays their score to hear what their music will actually sound like. Using a computer and suitable software, it's possible for anyone to produce high...

[Publish Date: May 27, 2009]

David Pogue's iPhone: The Missing Manual, 3rd Edition--New from O'Reilly: ...

Sebastopol, CA—With the iPhone 3.0 software and the new iPhone 3GS, Apple has a world-class hit on its hands. This sleek, highly refined pocket computer comes with everything--including a cellphone, iPod, Internet, and camcorder--except a...

[Publish Date: July 28, 2009]

Blue Sun? What an IBM acquisition of Sun means for software - O'Reilly

By Kurt Cagle

Sun's software side of the acquisition ledger, especially by IBM, has been rather oddly overlooked, given that it will likely have major implications for software development and cloud computing for years. Sun's software holdings cover five primary areas - Java, Solaris, mySQL, Open Office, and Sun's recently acquired QLayer cloud infrastructure. Understanding how IBM could potentially ramp up (or destroy) each of these gives some interesting insight into the real value of IBM's potential software acquisitions.

[Publish Date: March 23, 2009]

Eucalyptus: an Open Source Infrastructure for Cloud Computing: OSCON 2009 - ...

By Rich Wolski

We will present Eucalyptus -- Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs to Useful Systems -- an open source software infrastructure that implements IaaS-style cloud computing. The goal of Eucalyptus is to allow sites with existing clusters and server infrastructure to host an elastic computing service that is interface-compatible with Amazon's AWS.

[Publish Date: July 20, 2009]

Results from Wolfram Alpha: All the Questions We Ever Wanted to Ask About ...

By Andy Oram

Software as a Service, known in earlier decades as Application Service Providers, upends the relationship between computer users and software. I'm seriously tempted to say that Wolfram Alpha takes the SaaS model to its extreme. So Wolfram Alpha's chances at scaling the heights of fame should force us to stop for a moment and run our own calculations concerning the value to us of data integrity, reliability, privacy, and innovation.

[Publish Date: May 06, 2009]

Cloud Computing defined by Berkeley RAD Labs - O'Reilly Radar

By Artur Bergman

I am pleased to finally have found a paper that manages to bring together the different aspects of cloud computing in a coherent fashion, and suggests the requirements for it to develop further. Written by the Berkeley RAD Lab (UC Berkeley Reliable Adaptive Distributed Systems Laboratory) the paper succinctly brings together Software as a Service with Utility Computing to come...

[Publish Date: February 12, 2009]

Cloud computing perspectives and questions at the World Economic Forum - ...

By Andy Oram

The World Economic Forum started a research project at Davos 2009 concerning cloud computing, which they broadly define to include all kinds of remote services, from Software as a Service to virtual machines.

[Publish Date: July 09, 2009]

Free software meets corporate needs, including Software as a Service - ...

By Andy Oram

The computer field has evolved to the point where we see even more value from free and open source software. As for Software as a Service (SaaS), it has proven a great boost to free software--and vice versa. But I suspect the main driver that will elevate free software to world domination is an economic consideration I haven't seen anyone discuss.

[Publish Date: January 22, 2009]

97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know: Rebecca Parsons Explains ...

By Sara Peyton

97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts arrived this week. Edited by enterprise computing expert, Richard Monson-Haefel, this new book presents the expert advice of more than four dozen leading architects. In this excerpt, Thoughtworks CTO Rebecca Parsons explains why it's never too early to think about performance.

[Publish Date: February 06, 2009]

New Poll: Are you ready to do most of your computing on a netbook? - InsideRIA

By Rich Tretola

Last week's announcement of Google Chrome OS is another move in the direction of netbooks and the cloud. Software as a service providers are working hard to move you away from the desktop and client-side apps and towards hosted services...

[Publish Date: July 13, 2009]