"A good Koala knows how to see the wood for the trees, even when her head is in the clouds. Ubuntu aims to keep free software at the forefront of cloud computing by embracing the API’s of Amazon EC2, and making it easy for anybody to setup their own cloud using entirely open tools. We’re currently in beta with official Ubuntu base AMI’s for use on Amazon EC2. During the Karmic cycle we want to make it easy to deploy applications into the cloud, with ready-to-run appliances or by quickly assembling a custom image. Ubuntu-vmbuilder makes it easy to create a custom AMI today, but a portfolio of standard image profiles will allow easier collaboration between people doing similar things on EC2. Wouldn’t it be apt for Ubuntu to make the Amazon jungle as easy to navigate as, say, APT?" DavidRon wrote: You give Apple too much credit. Handmark had an app store for Palm devices nearly a decade before Apple, and years before the iPhone even existed. Certainly, Apple got the idea from the Palm platform. Additionally, since this is being posted in the Java Developer's Journal, you should give credit to GetJar which was around 1/2 a decade before the Apple application store.
Additionally, application stores have existed on non-mobile platforms for years as well such as Debian's synaptic....
Mar. 10, 2010 12:22 PM EST
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