Tag: cloud

Canonical Planning for Opensource Cloud Computing

ubuntu-logo-w400-h400

Ubuntu has been a firm favourite for me, and for nearly 10 million other people worldwide as the operating system of choice, due to ease-of-use and the unmatched ability to shape and alter the opensource operating system to suite your needs.

Canonical, the founders of Ubuntu, have recently announced that they wish to enter the new and frantic business that is cloud computing.Canonical are doing it with a twist however – It’s being supplied by an opensource company.

Next month, details will be revealed as to how the set-up will work. Nothing else has been said, other than Canonical is not planning to do something revolutionary, but rather in an open and community-based way.

Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Platform Azure Now Supports PHP

azure

Mix09 has seen plenty of reveals from software giant Microsoft, and recent announcement from the conference has reported that Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, titled Azure, is getting support for PHP development.

“Basically, the Windows Server team has done a ton of work with FastCGI that allows Windows Server to now support programming languages beyond just .Net and Visual Studio,”

In other words, existing PHP code will be able to run on the Azure platform.

Azure should be launched as a commercial venture at the end of 2009, if everything goes well. Pricing details haven’t been announced yet.