last month the www.virtualbox.com and www.virtualbox.org websites seemed to be dead and you could only reach virtualbox via http://www.oracle.com/virtualization/oraclevm but it seems that this month http://www.virtualbox.org has reappeared and you can download virtualbox from http://dlc.sun.com/virtualbox/vboxdownload.html!

IBM have launched LotusLive a cloud powered app for email, bmn, smn and online meetings that costs just £1.99 / user / month !

you can reduce the kernel clock rate in later versions of rhel 4 & 5 vmware vm guests from 1000Hz to 200Hz by adding divider=5 into the kernel start parameter line in your /boot/grub/menu.lst

for more info and other kernel start params such as clock= and clocksource= see

http://vmware.com/red-hat-rhel-vm-guest-rtc-clock-issues
http://vmware.com/timekeeping-in-virtual-machines
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/resources/238
http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/238
http://www.vmware.com/Timekeeping-In-VirtualMachines.pdf
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/externalId=1006427

Due to changes in our subscription arrangements with Red Hat, Rackspace can no longer offer Cloud customers hourly billing for RHEL licenses. Rackspace Cloud Servers customers will be billed for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) instances on a monthly rather than hourly basis.

Rackspace will begin charging customers a $20 monthly licensing fee, starting in September.

Amazon EC2 Cloud are now trying to undercut OVH Cloud pricing

Amazon EC2 Micro instances area new, low cost instance type designed for lower throughput applications and web sites. Amazon EC2 Micro instances provide 613 MB of memory and support 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. Amazon EC2 EU Micro instance pricing for On-Demand instances starts at $0.025 per hour.