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Short Takes: October 1, 2008

By SD Times News Team

October 1, 2008 — (Page 1 of 2)
VMware moves mountains
With everyone screaming about cloud computing these days, I'm really impressed with VMware's new road map. My friends all call me brainwashed and remain curmudgeonly, calling cloud the new SOA: Everyone's got a cloud product now, and most of them seem fairly useless or nebulous.

But in my opinion, VMware hit the nail right on the head with is Virtual Datacenter Operating System. Why rent time on someone else's cloud when you can buy an operating system that can run and manage thousands of systems all at once? The road map also shows a future where external and internal clouds can be synchronized, something users of Amazon's Web Services will be happy to hear about; AWS took a nosedive in August, resulting in time lost for all those hosted on the service.

When the day comes when a downed Amazon cloud can be replaced in moments with an internally hosted one, we will have reached the future.

Alex Handy

Show me the funny, Jerry!
By now, many of us have seen the Microsoft commercial with Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates, and the majority of folks who have seen it are wondering why it was made.

The commercial basically has Seinfeld meet Gates in a shoe store, with meaningless dialogue ensuing. There’s a reference to a conquistador and talk of a computer that can be eaten like a cake, but the one thing the commercial is missing is humor. You know, the type of humor Jerry was able to give us for over 10 years on his show. But for whatever reason, that whole humor thing seemed to elude Jerry in this one-minute commercial.

Jerry, we know you haven’t done much since your show went off the air a decade ago, aside from that animated movie about bees. Nevertheless, couldn’t you have given us at little bit of the old Seinfeld, as in, “What’s the deal with Vista?!!”

Jeff Feinman

Apple more delicious than BlackBerry
So I finally caved into my consumerist impulses and purchased a 16GB iPhone when my BlackBerry went on the fritz. The iPhone was out of contract and cost me much more than a new BlackBerry would have.

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