Cloud.com's open source CloudStack software facilitates so as anyone can get into the cloud provider business. The Cupertino based company yesterday the availability of the open source version of their tool, the change to their new name (they used to be VMOps), the addition of several high profile executives and new financing. They will have commercially licensed versions of their software out by months end that include integration into billing and support tools, as well as more robust APIs.
Network and Web site operators are coming under increasing pressure to support IPv6 -- the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol -- as more market indicators point to the rapid depletion of addresses for IPv4.
TheNumber Resource Organization(NRO announced on Tuesday that only 8% of IPv4 addresses remain unallocated. The NRO consists of the five Regional Internet Registries, which dole out blocks of IPv4 and IPv6 address space to carriers.
The NRO's latest figures are significant because the Internet infrastructure must be upgraded to support both IPv4 and IPv6. IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses and can support 4.3 billion devices connected directly to the Internet. IPv6, on the other hand, uses 128-bit addresses and supports a virtually unlimited number of devices.
When IPv4 addresses run out -- which is projected to occur in 2011 or 2012 -- carriers includingVerizonandComcastplan to provide their customers with IPv6 addresses.
Meanwhile, Web site operators such asGoogleandNetflixare adopting IPv6 so that users with IPv6 addresses can view their content.
Despite the efforts of these IPv6 pioneers, the NRO says the Internet industry is not prepared for IPv4 address space to run out.
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Much easy to guess, this edition is mainly focussed on cloud computing, pretty much like everywhere else in the Industry. The much awaited Parallels summit 2010 was held on lovely Fontainebleau in Miami Beach on Feb 22-24. Parallels CEO Serguei Beloussov outlined the company’s vision for the Cloud, from his keynotes, Parallels will be more concentrating on small to medium business (SMB) which predicted will grow to nearly $19 billion by 2013.
“Considerable growth is predicted in Cloud services for small businesses as they provide a low cost, easy solution for these organizations, who need an increasing range of IT services, but have very little IT knowledge and limited budgets,” said Beloussov.
In his keynotes, Parallels admitting that VMware ESX is the best hypervisor on the market, but “except for its price” comparing to Parallels virtualization tools. Secondarily, he indirectly admitted that Parallels competitor in virtualizing the hosting industry is not VMware, but vendors that offer Xen-based platforms. And this is because Amazon, with its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) which is based on Xen, is leading by example.
He also announced Parallels hired Amir Sharif, former VMware ESX Product Manager, as new Vice President of Virtualization. Sharif will certainly provide impressive intelligence to Parallels about VMware and how his former company led and controlled the whole virtualization industry so far.
Foundation pays a core group of developers and a CTO.
Paid staff
Fully paid staff
Mediawiki raises money primarily from the users of wikipedia rather than companies engaged in the Mediawiki economy. Also the Wikipedia project receives some large grants. The foundation also paid for professional usability work. etc
Apache HTTP Server/ASF
Several large companies (IBM, Oracle, Google) have people on their staffs work essentially full time on Apache Server
Community is mainly around mailing lists and IRC, infrastructure for that is paid for. Events are contracted out.
Hire contract workers for secretarial/executive assistant work; pay for system administration and PR
ASF is an umbrella organization that incorporates many projects, each of which has slightly different arrangements.
Moodle
moodle.com pays a group of developers including the lead developer (Martin Dougiamas), a senior developer and several other developers
moodle.com pays a community manager
moodle.com pays staff
Total staff is 14
Mozilla
MF: Direct support of accessibility programming Core Developers are paid by mozilla corp, a wholly owned for profit company. "With the formation of the Mozilla Corporation, the Mozilla Foundation delegated all their development and business-related activities to the new subsidiary." MF decides who can check in code.
MF pays for redesign of website, work on mozdev.org,
Pay full time staff including ED, treasurer, programs director, programs coordinator etc
1) Umbrella organization - Mozilla Foundation 2) Mozilla Corporation - taxable subsidiary (mostly focused on Firefox) 3) Mozilla Messaging - taxable subsidiary (mostly focused on Thunderbird) 4) 3 independent but affiliated NPOs: Mozilla China, Mozilla Japan, Mozilla Europe. Has about $34 million in cash on hand in 2008 990 (over $1.2 million in investment income).
Ubuntu
Privately funded by Canonical, volunteers, who may or may not be paid by other companies.
Jono Bacon, community manager, paid by Canonical
? Not clear if there are independent administrative expenses.
"The Ubuntu Foundation guarantees the viability of the project independently of the commercial activities of Canonical, and provides a legal vehicle for continued community direction in the project" "Mark Shuttleworth, as SABDFL, plays a happily undemocratic role as sponsor of the project."
WordPress
Funded by Automattic
?
? Not clear if there are independent administrative expenses.
Recently formed a foundation.
Drupal
Funded by for profits in the Drupal economy, most importantly Acquia and Lullabot for the lead committers for version 7.
Some expenses such as events management paid by Drupal Association plus some private companies.
Paid by Drupal Association. UPDATE: There is not a paid staff but contractors are paid on an as-needed basis by the DA. See comments.
BDFL Dries Buytaert
Joomla!
Some funding of senior developers as contractors by OSM since October 2009
That sounds both logical and esoteric, but it has ramifications for ad revenue. Benjamin Schachter, an analyst with Broadpoint.Amtech, notes today that a test search of each of the top 10 best-selling subscription drugs on Google found that 68% of the ads on the first page of search results were from Canadian online pharmacies that would be disallowed under the new rules. For the top five drugs, 76% of the ads were for Canadian online pharmacies. (Try it; search for Lipitor, say, or Nexium, or Plavix. You’ll find that many of the resultant advertising links are for Canadian online drug peddlers, like CanadaDrugPharmacy.com and CanadaDrugCenter.com.)
Schachter adds that “reading between the lines, we believe that there was very likely regulatory pressure that influenced this change.”
Pharma and health care comprise about 4% of total online ad spending in 2009, he notes; the change isn’t promoting him to change estimates, but he does say that the development “will be a slight drag on revenue.”
Schachter, who has a Buy rating on the stock, says that “This type of issue highlights the key point that regulatory and legal concerns continue to our top risk factor for GOOG.”
