Red Hat submits cloud APIs as potential industry standard As the industry call for cloud interoperability grows more fervent, open source enterprise software company Red Hat has submitted its cloud platform, Deltacloud, to the DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force) as a potential standard for cloud interoperability, the company said Wednesday. “We do not want Deltacloud to be under the control of any one particular vendor, including Red Hat.

Google hits back at Oracle’s lawsuit Google will put up a fight in response to the patent- and copyright-infringement lawsuit that Oracle filed over the use of Java in the Android mobile phone platform. Oracle’s lawsuit is a disappointing and “baseless” attack not only against Google but also against the open-source Java community, Google spokesman Aaron Zamost said on Friday. “The open-source Java community goes beyond any one corporation and works every day to make the Web a better place.

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Web Host News – San Mateo, CA & Petaling Jaya, Malaysia — NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), the industry’s leading provider of cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) / financial suites, today announced a strategic partnership with Sunway E-Systems (SES), one of Southeast Asia’s leading integrators of technology-enabled business

Sophos Gets Props For Calling Out Apple When Sophos pointed the finger at Apple recently over security in OS X, it sounded like a vendor trying to generate fear to sell products. But in this case, Sophos is also doing the industry a service, according to some security experts. Sophos called out Apple last week for boosting the built-in protection in OS X in its recent 10.6.4 update without disclosing that it had done so.

Googles Schmidt Shrugs Off Privacy Concerns Over Wi-Fi Scandal Google’s top executive shrugged off any privacy concerns in the wake of reports that his company secretly recorded data from private Wi-Fi wireless networks, telling attendees at the company’s Zeitgeist conference that no one was harmed. Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt told attendees of the Zeitgeist conference in Watford, U.K., that there was no harm done in the wireless data snooping case, and challenged the industry to name anyone who was harmed by the incident, the BBC reported on Tuesday

Our database includes sales information from all of the industry’s major sales venues including Oversee.nets’s Moniker and SnapNames divisions. This morning Oversee released an interesting report covering 1Q-2010 results on their sales platforms that indicates things are looking up there. Moniker and SnapNames reported a 42% jump in total sales over the previous quarter.  Oversee said its results included a private 7-figure sale as well as a half dozen 6-figure sales including Guns.com ($800,000) , PartySupplies.com ($360,000) , ScreenSavers.com ($335,000) , LoanCalculator.com ($215,000) , HomeRun.com ($131,000) and Migraine.com ($125,000)

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