Links for January 11th

• Verizon Wireless Support For iPhone 4 Opens Enterprise Doors
  Wow these guys make it out to be, like, the iPhone singularity (for enterprise).
• Another Microsoft Executive to Leave – WSJ.com
• Nielsen’s New App Playbook Debunks Mobile App Store Myth | Nielsen Wire
• Best Pricing Practices or Conventional Wisdom?
  Looks at the pricing schemes and rates for 317 SaaS firms.
• Karmasphere Study Shows Hadoop Projects Start as Skunkworks; Quickly Move to Active Development and Production
  "The study shows that nearly 68% of Hadoop developers said their Hadoop projects were started as skunkworks, and within a year 86% of projects have moved into either active development or production. Additionally, organizations are finding that the longer Hadoop is used, the more useful it is found to be; 65% of organizations using Hadoop for a year or more indicated more than three reasons for using Hadoop, as compared to 36% for new users. The study also projects a 50-60% increase in the number of Hadoop developers within organizations already using Hadoop."
• InfoQ: Sencha Touch 1.0 Released – License Drops from $99 to $0
• Q4 2010 OpenStack Community Snapshot — The OpenStack Blog
  Momentum by numbers for OpenStack.
• What’s cloud IaaS really about?
  Lydia Leong of Gartner responds to criticisms that the recent Magic Quadrant for Cloud IaaS and Web Hosting didn't rank Amazon as #1.
• Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting
• bookofjoe: The iPhone in "Zero History"
  Tracks mentions of the iPhone in William Gibson's Zero History.
• Orion/Project mission statement – Eclipsepedia
  "How can we create tools for open web development that are both powerful enough and elastic enough to support the full scope of the web as it continues to advance and grow?"
• NoSQL – consolidating and proliferating in 2011 — Too much information
  "The main difference between NoSQL and Linux markets, of course, is that the various Linux distributions all have a common core, and the diversity in the NoSQL space means that we are unlikely to see proliferation on the scale of Linux. However, I think we’ll see a similar two-tier market emerge with a large number of technically interesting and differentiated open source projects, and a small number of commercially-viable general-purpose category leaders."
• Introducing Orion
  A new project from Eclipse to do an in-browser tool for building web apps. Yes, kind of like bespin and WaveMaker, as a good conceptual baseline – "Orion is not a set of Java plug-ins which run in the existing Java IDE. It is browser-based open tool integration platform which is entirely focused on developing for the web, in the web. Tools are written in JavaScript and run in the browser. Unlike other attempts at creating browser-based development tools, this is not an IDE running in a single tab. Links work and can be shared. You can open a file in a new tab. Great care has been taken to provide a web experience for development."
• Mickos and Eucalyptus lock arms with Red Hat
• JRuby upgrade called biggest release ever
• Android at CES – strong growth as platform jumps to new devices
  "The next generation of Android smartphones emerged at CES."

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