2009-01-04

• ​Did Google's Eric Schmidt Coin "Cloud Computing"?
  • Cloud Computing一辭的起源為 2006 年 Google CEO Eric Schmidt 用來描述自家的 SaaS 服務。

    When Google CEO Eric Schmidt  used it in 2006 to describe their own stuff and then Amazon included the word 
    “cloud” in EC2 when it was launched a few weeks later (August 24), the term became mainstream.
    

*​JumpBox Releases 38 Open Source Virtual Appliances for Amazon Cloud Service

• ​JumpBox 的 Logo / Website 先前有逛過，至於展示攤位我也有在 LinuxWorld 2008 看過，我也覺得它蠻有趣的。它把目前熱門的 Open Source 專案都變成以前網頁虛擬主機(Hosting)的一種軟體服務(Software as a Service)