On 05 Sep 2008 in A-Team Free, Delivery Terms, FTI-Events, FTI-Mashups, FTI-Open Source, FTI-SOA, FinTech-Infrastructure.com 
Speaking at the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco today: Ryan Floyd of Storm Ventures suggested that 2.0-style mashups have facilitated enterprise integration more readily than SOA initiatives, that have largely failed to fulfill their promise, he claimed. He pointed to the straightforward integration of Echosign’s e-signature service with suites like Salesforce.com.
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On 02 Sep 2008 in A-Team Free, Delivery Terms, FTI-Cloud Computing, FTI-Desktop Delivery, FTI-Open Source, FinTech-Infrastructure.com
Google will today launch a beta version of its Chrome web browser in 100 countries. Commenting on the development, Google executives stated in a blog post that “What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that’s what we set out to build.” Initially available for Windows only, Linux and Apple Mac versions will be released in the future.
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On 05 Aug 2008 in A-Team Free, Delivery Terms, FTI-Cloud Computing, FTI-Grid Computing, FTI-Open Source, FinTech-Infrastructure.com
A recently published benchmark from Grid Dynamics Consulting Services, of Monte Carlo simulations running on a GridGain Software and fully open source framework on top of Amazon EC2 showed near linear scalability up to 512 nodes. More information is here.
On 15 Jul 2008 in A-Team Free, Delivery Terms, FTI-Open Source, FTI-Operating Systems, FTI-Server Technologies, FinTech-Infrastructure.com
NYSE Euronext announced that it has leveraged Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network to run its mission-critical financial trading platform. The exchange group investigated two competing Linux distributions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and compared the solutions based purely on technology and related support.
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