Build your own installation of Sugar 5.5 (Alpha) on our On-Demand servers.
The custom demos give you the opportunity to use the end user and administration tools.
http://www.sugarcrm.com/crm/Sugar5.5_CP1
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Howto to start an IBM sMash EC2 AMI with an instance of SugarCRM.
http://www.projectzero.org/blog/index.php/2009/02/12/sugar-on-smash-on-ec2/
IBM to Deliver WebSphere sMash via Cloud Computing with Amazon Web Services EC2
IBM have announced the availability of Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for WebSphere sMash for development and test purposes, enabling software developers to quickly build pre-production applications based on IBM software within Amazon EC2 (see press release).
Note Amazon Web Services EC2 hourly charges apply.
HAProxy is a free libre open fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP based applications. It is particularly suited for web sites crawling under very high loads while needing persistence or Layer7 processing.
The Open Cloud Manifesto goal is to draft a document that clearly states we (including dozens of supporting companies) believe that like the Internet, the cloud itself should be open. The manifesto does not speak to application code or licensing but instead to the fundamental principles that the Internet was founded upon – an open platform available to all.
VMware Player 2.5.2 is now available !
So you can start trying your JumpBoxes and rPath software appliances today !
See how the newly available IBM® WebSphere® sMash and IBM DB2® Express-C Amazon Machine Images can be used to deploy a sample multi-tenant banking application to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. This demo also explores how the sample application can share its components and deployment infrastructure among multiple tenants.
ConVirt provides enterprise-class management of open source virtualization platforms, making open source virtualization an extremely viable and cost-effective choice for enterprises.
ConVirt lets you manage the complete lifecycle of Xen and KVM virtualization platforms from a central, GUI dashboard.
With sophisticated template-based provisioning, centralized monitoring, configuration management and administration, IT administrators can now automate the entire virtual machine lifecycle on open source platforms.
Oracle BEA LiquidVM is a virtualization-enabled version of BEA JRockit JVM that can run on a hypervisro without a standard OS, allowing Java applications to run directly on the virtualized hardware !
According to http://billyonopensource.blogspot.com/2009/02/red-hat-goes-streaking-dumps-xen.html
virtualisation is now going to a three horse race:
and all are coming from different positions of strength – and weakness !