Links for March 8th through March 9th

• Virtual Appliances – More Risk than Reward?
• Cisco Introduces Foundation for Next-Generation Internet: The Cisco CRS-3 Carrier Routing System
  The change the Internet announcement: routers that can handle much more traffic.
• Gear6 throws self at Memcached Achilles heel
  Middleware as a Service – "Gear6's Cloud Cache works on the server and doesn't need hand-coding by the user. When you add a node do your EC cloud cache pool, Gear6's Cloud Cache will redistribute the key value pairs inside the hash and migrate the data for you – so the data is moved back and forth without getting lost."
• Mainsoft’s Harmony Brings Google Docs To Microsoft Outlook
  Wow, Mainsoft gets a TechCrunch story. Good PR job on their part.
• Why businesses still hate enterprise software
  The reasons? There are: High cost of ownership, difficult upgrades, Poor cross-functional processes, What the apps deliver doesn't match business requirements, and Inflexibility limits process change.
• Dell: Appeal of vertically integrated IT stack vastly overblown | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
  Against the Unified Computing idea – Dell doesn't like Mainframe 2.0.
• How AT&T Plans to Keep SXSW From Swamping Its Network
• 10 Austin Startups You Should Meet While You’re at SXSW
• Rackspace Relaunches Hosted Application Partner Program
  As he gets to, Rackspace's Hosting division can be frames as Racpkspace's SaaS division. That's be good corperate level framing, along with their new Cloud division. Better than "Cloud and that old part that makes a lot of money."
• Entering The Wonderful World of Geo Location
  With all sorts of JavaScript libaries and APIs to use. Nice overview for web coders, actually.
• Wipro Cloud Strategy Promotes Microsoft BPOS
• Print Is Over — Issue One
  I like this novel web writing style here, a broadsheet of stuff. And, they're funny jokes: "It seems increasingly likely that Nikola Tesla did not die, but rather converted himself into pure energy. Then again, I could be biased — I'm a huge fan of Tesla, and also I'm really, really drunk."

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