Webcloud World

In just 2 days, the quiet OS Market has been shaked by two major announcements :
- Google will launch in the second semester of 2010 an OS named”Chrome OS”, which will run on X86 and ARM-based computers.
- Jolicloud, the French startup launched by Netvibes’ forme founder Tarik Krim, raised $4.2M from famous investors.
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Inspired by the Cable-TV market, Nimbus is about to launch its “cloud computer plans” , which give people access to a computer with web and desktop softwares for $19/month or even for free thanks to an ad-supported version of their offer. The offer is not, for sure, targeting hard core gamers (even if cloud computing [...]

“It’s time to stop thinking about these servers as being things for geeks and start thinking about them as things for people with ideas” said Dave Winer, when introducing EC2 for Poets, a step-by-step howto helping people setting up a server on Amazon cloud’s infrastructure EC2.
A must read for anybody willing to embrace cloud computing.
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Presented during Demo 09, Appzero is an innovative solution enabling online services’ developers to easily deploy their software into the cloud (or any new environment) by packing a server application and all its components together. Once created, the “package” can be moved from one environement to another, by a simple drag and drop as shown [...]

For those of you who couldn’t assist to the conference, you can watch the video highlights from the roundtables involving  Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff,  Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, Ning CEO Gina Bianchini and FriendFeed co-founder Paul Buchheit.If you are interested in watching more, you will find the full event on Techcrunch.

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One day before Apple’s keynote at Macworld (the latest), a rumor has spread over several blogs : capitalizing on the work made around MobileMe, Apple would announce an online version of iWork.

Developed by Xcerion, a startup based in Sweden, icloud provides a virtual desktop and operating system for free directly on the Internet. The vision is that in a near future, many webapps will be spreading around the web (as more and more now are) and icloud will be THE place to gather those web-hosted applications, [...]

Salesforce extends its offer by allowing its users to create and host public websites based on data and tools formerly avaible only in Salesforce’s cloud.
Force.com Sites enable Salesforce’s users to :

Publish Public websites
Publish Public web applications
Create public interfaces to existing applications

With the following advantages :

Branded domain names
Visualforce site pages
Profile-driven access
Syndication feeds
Performance caching

“The Azure™ Services Platform is an internet-scale cloud computing and services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers. The Azure Services Platform provides a range of functionality to build applications that span from consumer web to enterprise scenarios and includes a cloud operating system and a set of developer services. Fully interoperable through the support of [...]