Lots of moving and shaking today and we are not just talking about the earthquake in Southern California. Here are today’s HyperLINKS: HP, Intel and Yahoo are partnering with governments and academic institutions to create an open source cloud computing test bed with six distributed centers Gunjan Trivedi offers a great analysis of cloud computing [...]

In HyperLINKS today…San Francisco computer hacker causes chaos for administrators, while cloud coverage continues to float on the web Distressed San Francisco network administrator pleads “not guilty” to computer tampering, an incident that will cost $250,000 to repair Bruce Guptill and William S. McNee write about the evolution of SaaS and cloud computing Phil Wainewright [...]

My friend Dave Rosenberg got me thinking this morning about the market dynamics of closed source, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Open Source Software (OSS). In his post on InfoWorld, Dave muses on the differences of SaaS vs OSS. He cites that there are relatively few standouts in SaaS and many shining stars in OSS. I have [...]