Links for March 5th through March 9th

• Oracle seeks Java cloud closure help
  "Java EE 7 will focus on HTML5, web sockets, and REST – Oracle's promised "first-class support" – along with JSON. Contexts and Dependency Injection will be updated and Java caching its getting re-worked with delivery of Java EE 7 due in the third quarter of 2012."
• IT spending higher than expected in 2010
  The pie grows: "IDC said in its latest Worldwide Black Book that IT spending worldwide rose by 8 per cent, to more than $1.5 trillion as measured in constant currency."
• Updated IaaS Builders’ Guide
• Facebook Adds Websites, Social Plugins, and Demographic Analytics to <br>Insights
• 'Insider Trading' Trial Of The Century Starts Today
  With plenty of pillow talk angle across companies like IBM and AMD, this should be a source of interesting insider laundry.
• Nimbula instamatic cloud kit set for launch
  "Nimbula Director installs on bare-metal servers, and it's compatible with both the Xen and KVM hypervisors. The platform offers its own REST (representational state transfer) API – accessible from either the web or the command line – but it's designed to dovetail with Amazon EC2, mapping its own APIs to Amazon's so you can move applications between your private cloud and the EC2 public infrastructure. In the future, Nimbula plans to play nice with other public clouds as well."
• Microsoft: 'No one cares about Google's dev cloud'
  "You run into services companies and you ask about the public cloud, and they say 'Why would I take the most important asset I have and put it in a place where I no longer manage it directly?'," Thompson explained. That asset, he said, is the customer list held by these companies.
• 5 things iOS 4.3 brings the iPad and iPhone
• Adobe’s Wallaby Can’t Jump Very High
• Chrome 10: Google whips out its Crankshaft
• Massive data volumes making Hadoop hot – Computerworld
  "The big picture is that with Hadoop you can have even a one and two person startup being able to process the same volume of data that some of the biggest companies in the world are," he said.
• Dr Dobbs | OneInstall Coins "iSaaS" installation Software-as-a-Service
  "Managing installations and updates of software has always been problematic. First impressions count and the installation experience is often the first encounter users have with software. Despite this, the ongoing updating and ease of use are often overlooked and ill-treated," said Michael Coté, industry analyst with RedMonk. "With the emphasis on delivering frequent functionality — new software functionality more often — developers need an installation and distribution management system that not only makes getting the software easy, but also makes updating the software seamless."
• Black Duck Introduces Android Fast Start Program
  "Black Duck's latest metrics concerning open-source traction in mobile development confirm the importance of market opportunity for developer traction," said Stephen O'Grady, principal analyst at RedMonk, in a statement. "In concentrating on the Android and iOS platforms, developers are advantaging two differentiated platforms. While Android may be open source and iOS closed, they are both volume platforms, which indicates that developer pragmatism is alive and well."
• Adobe-Apple war likely to intensify with release of Wallaby converter
  "The spat is personal now and Apple is going after Adobe's key markets in media. The advertising business is worth tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars a year and both want a slice of it," he said. "Apple is pushing for in-app ads that it controls, whereas Wallaby attempts to open up the Apple devices again so they become browsers on steroids, rather than places to run iOS apps."
• Nimbula Announces General Availability of Cloud Operating System Software and Free Version
• Adobe targets iOS with Wallaby Flash-to-HTML5 converter
  "Adobe says that the main goal with Wallaby is to produce output that has the best combination of performance and quality on iOS. This objective betrays Wallaby's immediate purpose: allowing advertisers to create rich ads that display correctly on the iPhone and iPad. The lack of Flash on iOS impacts both banner advertising on the Web, and ads embedded into applications using Apple's HTML5-powered iAd. Wallaby allows designers to migrate their designs and hence reduce the costs of supporting these non-Flash platforms."
• Agile Executive Forum, August 8th 2011
  Topics: "Increasing speed-to-value (increasing revenues and rapidly responding to changing market conditions); Leading enterprise agility; Large Scale Agile transformations (lumps, bumps, and successes); Strategic Innovation and Emerging Technologies (social, cloud, mobile); Managing risk in a VUCA World (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity)."
• Flash to HTML5 Conversion Tool on Adobe Labs (Adobe Featured Blogs)
• “Wallaby” Flash-to-HTML5 conversion tool now available
  Convert Flash stuff to HTML5 chunks.
• NewWorldFoods
• So, what has Adobe actually done for HTML5 lately?
• KPCB – USA Inc. #usainc
  "USA Inc.is a non-partisan report that looks at the U.S. federal government (and its financials) as if it were a business. Mary Meeker, partner at KPCB and former financial analyst at Morgan Stanley, created and compiled the report with the goal of informing the discussion about our financial situation and outlook. USA Inc. examines the country’s income statement and balance sheet, aiming to interpret the underlying data and facts, and illustrate patterns and trends in easy-to-understand ways. The report also analyzes the drivers of federal revenue and the history of expense growth, and discusses basic scenarios for how revenue and expense growth might change to help America move toward positive cash flow."
• StackOps – The Open Cloud Enabler
  Hadn't come across these OpenStack distro/support guys – based in Madrid.
• Dell, Opscode and Rackspace Demonstrate First Fully Automated Provisioning of Multi-Node… — SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ —
  "There's a tremendous amount of interest in the OpenStack community around seeing complete, ready to deploy cloud platforms based on OpenStack," said Michael Cote, Analyst at RedMonk. "The effort by Dell, Opscode, and Rackspace is a great example of partners advancing the OpenStack initiative. The work they're doing to bring together hardware, automation, and the cloud platform into a near push button cloud setup should provide a very interesting offering."
• MS smartphone share falls despite WinPho 7 • The Register
• Microsoft Is Said to Pay Nokia More Than $1 Billion in Deal – Businessweek
• Accel-Backed ScaleXtreme Takes Data Center Management To The Cloud
• Inside Scoop SF » House of Shields, restored to its glory, opens Thursday
• Inside Microsoft Azure
  A user of Azure goes over how it went.
• Experimenting on Themselves
  "In its social experiments, IBM has "sucked in virtually all of the concepts from the Web and Enterprise 2.0 worlds," says Michael Coté, an industry analyst with RedMonk. 'I like to think of what they have as your own version of the Web, for behind the firewall.'"
• Frank’s still Frank: Cognizant CEO Francisco D’Souza talks to HfS about his <br>40% growth year
  "An example of this is the work we are doing at Eli Lilly & Company, where Cognizant is deploying a comprehensive BPaaS solution to support US sales and marketing operations. Our solution covers a range of functions such as sales force planning, sales incentive compensation, customer relationship management, business reporting, data warehousing, analytics and state compliance reporting. We are excited about expanding our portfolio of solutions aligned to these unfolding secular changes."

Disclosure: see the RedMonk client list for clients mentioned.