It seems that everyone talks about being liquid, fluid as an entering ticket for virtualization market.
Red Hat has massive Linux fluidity moment | The Register
It is natural for Linux vendor to stand by virtualization. Although classical Redhat talk about the subject is always related to Xen, I think Redhat has finally done something beyond hype this time. To be fair, though, I must say that this is more a victory of Amazon instead of Redhat. After all, Amazon EC2 has been running close relative of Redhat Enterprise all the time, the partnership from Redhat has only endorsement value.
This media coverage, however, has given me a thought about virtualization selling model. As I have commented
here, using software license model to sell virtualization products can pose a serious challenge for vendor like VMWare. Selling virtualization as on-demand service is, however, a completely different story.
Usually, small to medium enterprise are not typical target customer of IT consulting company, but those enterprise can benefit from virtualization nevertheless. While Fortune 500 companies are still not likely to adopt Amazon EC2 services, small to medium enterprise have less resistance on this front and are more likely to deploy their application on EC2. In this way, Amazon has opened new business opportunity without facing the political challenges of traditional IT warlords. How clever.
It would also be very interesting to see BEA WebLogic Server Virtual Edition run on EC2. For those of you who don't know about this BEA product, it is a special WebLogic Server edition that lets JRockit VM to act directly as underling guest OS in VMWare, saving computing overhead of OS level facilities. Currently this product is only certified against VMWare, but technically it shouldn't be too difficult to port it to run under EC2 architecture. What's more difficult is for BEA to decide whether it needs to tap into this changing market and change its license model from per CPU to per usage to appropriately map with this virtualization trend.
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所幸，台灣的Linux前輩們開發了Lazybuntu。這個懶人包套件除了能夠幫忙設定中文化環境之外，甚至還包括了許多桌面和字型美化的套件，讓你透過選單溝選的方式，就可以輕輕鬆鬆的享有一個完整美觀的Ubuntu環境。坦白說，如果不是有Lazybuntu，安裝一個完整可用的Linux環境可能要花一整個禮拜在環境設定和微調。
另外，Ubuntu預設安裝總是有點少東少西的。只要你有安裝夠強大的Nvidia/ATI顯示卡，CompizFusion預設就可在，「外觀設定」選項當中就可開啟預設的特效，但如果你要客製化這些特效，則又得去安裝CompizConfig。還沒完呢！還記得Openoffice 2.4人所稱道的3D投影片特效嗎？那也是要另外去安裝openoffice.org-ogltrans套件才能夠生效的。
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