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Amazon 2 days ago announced to support Eclipse @ EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud). Amazon names this service as Amazon Java Toolkit for Eclipse. See this >

http://aws.amazon.com/eclipse/

This enriches Amazon’s Platform as a Service (PaaS). The obvious implication behind reads:

• Include Java API within Amazon’s PaaS
• Provide elastic computing resource for Java application via Java API / IDE on IaaS
• Ease the access of Java @ API / plugin on Tool-as-a-Service (TaaS)
• Widen support to Tomcat container

More info:
Pricing > http://aws.amazon.com/eclipse/#2 , which is Free!
Installation > http://aws.amazon.com/eclipse/#4

Source: http://blogs.cioinsight.com/knowitall/Gartner….htm

Egham, U.K., August 11, 2008 — Gartner, Inc. has identified 27 emerging technologies and predicts that eight of these will have a transformational business impact and should be strongly considered for adoption by technology planners in the next 10 years, according to the report “Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2008.”

“Although Web 2.0 is now entering the Trough of Disillusionment, it will emerge within two years to have transformational impact, as companies steadily gain more experience and success with both the technologies and the cultural implications,” said Jackie Fenn, vice president and Gartner Fellow. “Later — in between two and five years — cloud computing and service-oriented architecture (SOA), which is moving up the Slope of Enlightenment, will deliver transformation in terms of driving deep changes in the role and capabilities of IT. Finally, public virtual worlds, which are suffering from disillusionment after their peak of hype in 2007, will in the long term represent an important media channel to support and build broader communities of interest.”

Technologies and trends at or around the peak of the Hype Cycle in 2008 (see Figure 1) that will reach the plateau in two to five years are:

• Green IT — Along with broader societal pressure for environmentally sustainable solutions, IT has the opportunity — and in many cases, a requirement — to improve the “greenness” of its own activities, as well as to contribute to broader company and industry environmental initiatives.
• Cloud computing — As companies seek to consume their IT services in the most cost-effective way, interest is growing in drawing a broad range of services (for example, computational power, storage and business applications) from the “cloud,” rather than from on-premises equipment. Many types of technology providers are aligning themselves with this trend, with the result that confusion and hype will continue for at least another year before distinct submarkets and market leaders emerge.
• Social computing platforms — Following the phenomenal success of consumer-oriented social networking sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, companies are examining the role that these sites, or their enterprise-grade equivalents, will play in future collaboration environments. The scope is also expanding to incorporate the notion of social “platforms,” or environments for a broad range of developers to build on the basic application.
• Video telepresence — High-end videoconferencing systems (for example, from HP, Cisco, Teliris and others) that utilize large, high-definition (HD) displays and components to show life-size images of participants in meeting rooms or suites have proven significantly more effective than earlier generations of videoconferencing technology in providing a strong sense of in-room presence between remote participants. High cost is currently the barrier to broader adoption.
• Microblogging — Pioneered by Twitter (although other services such as FriendFeed or Plurk are also available), microblogging is a relatively new addition to the world of social networking, in which contributors post a stream of very short messages providing information about their current activity or thoughts, which can then be subscribed to by others. The phenomenon has caught on among certain online communities, and leading-edge companies are investigating its role in enhancing other social media and channels.

Amazon EC2′s architecture & offerings

June 17, 2008, Red Hat has announced their second offering on Amazon EC2 – JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. Now available on EC2‘s flexible, pay-as-you-go computing environment, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform provides developers with the most popular clustered Java EE application server and next generation application frameworks to build innovative and scalable Java applications.

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Earlier in May, Sun Microsystems and Amazon Web Services are collaborating to offer two open source solutions on Amazon EC2: OpenSolaris and MySQL technical support. With OpenSolaris OS on Amazon EC2, you have access to a robust operating system on a scalable, cost-effective virtual computing environment. And now MySQL Enterprise customers can choose to deploy their database on Amazon EC2 and receive full database software and production support from MySQL. These new offerings extend the breadth and support of EC2′s on-demand, pay-as-you-go computing environment. Learn about OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2 and MySQL on EC2.

See other partners of Amazon in EC2 offering > http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=s…36L942TSJ2AJA

Information Source > http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=…A36L942TSJ2AJA

What should IBM do when we see these logos and services there?