{"id":2862,"date":"2009-07-01T15:00:30","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T20:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/?p=2862"},"modified":"2009-07-01T15:00:30","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T20:00:30","slug":"links-for-july-1st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/07\/01\/links-for-july-1st\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for July 1st"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"deliciousLinks\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2009\/07\/01\/sun_virtualbox_3\/\">Sun&#039;s VirtualBox 3.0 exits betaland &bull; The Register<\/a><br \/>Lotsa details and speculation about next version of VirtualBox and relation to Oracle buying Sun.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1574-mozilla-takes-aim-at-flash-and-silverlight-with-firefox-3-5.html\">Mozilla takes aim at Flash and Silverlight with Firefox 3.5<\/a><br \/>Nice questions and discussion of Adobe+Microsoft vs. Mozilla+Google.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/news\/2009\/070109-ibm-vmware-financing.html?fsrc=netflash-rss\">IBM bundles x86 servers with VMware, offers special financing &#8211; Network World<\/a><br \/>&quot;An IBM System x3850 server with VMware would typically retail for $59,000. IBM is promising the server with vSphere to &#039;qualified customers&#039; for no money up front and monthly payments of $1,675. IBM says customers can consolidate 70 workloads onto a single x3850 server.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudave.com\/link\/saas-and-religion-the-tenancy-debates-do-customers-care-30-6-2009\">SaaS and Religion: the Tenancy Debates. Do Customers Care? | CloudAve<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/humancapitalist.com\/?p=699\">Is Your Vendor Really Operating &quot;In the Cloud&quot;? The 3 Most Important Questions to Understand About SaaS<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/SAAS\/?p=725\">LongJump puts PaaS on-premise | Software as Services | ZDNet.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reghardware.co.uk\/2009\/06\/22\/us_consumers_not_hot_for_bluray_harris_april_09_survey\/\">People just not that into Blu-ray<\/a><br \/>Lots of good stuff in here. Once Bluray players are $40-100, I&#039;m sure they&#039;ll sell&#8230;once people replace their already OK DVD players. Unlike computers &#8211; where you&#039;re forced to buy a new one often to keep up with software that won&#039;t work on older machines &#8211; there&#039;s not much reason to upgrade a video player. People just don&#039;t care about a &quot;better&quot; picture when DVD is just fine.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.channelregister.co.uk\/2009\/07\/01\/ubuntu_cloud_support\/\">Canonical offers tech support for clouds &bull; Channel Register<\/a><br \/>&quot;Canonical is offering annual contracts with either standard (9&#215;5 business hours) or advanced (24&#215;7) coverage. An entry-level cloud support contract includes support for five physical machines and up to 25 virtual machines for $4,750 per year; a 24&#215;7 contract costs $17,500 for the same setup. (The pricing is scaling proportionately with the number of hours in the week covered, which is fair enough.) Each additional physical server can get a support pack that can have up to ten virtual machines for $1,250 for standard support and $3,000 for advanced support.&quot;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sun&#039;s VirtualBox 3.0 exits betaland &bull; The RegisterLotsa details and speculation about next version of VirtualBox and relation to Oracle buying Sun. Mozilla takes aim at Flash and Silverlight with Firefox 3.5Nice questions and discussion of Adobe+Microsoft vs. Mozilla+Google. IBM bundles x86 servers with VMware, offers special financing &#8211; Network World&quot;An IBM System x3850 server [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}