This Wednesday was probably the first day on the (potentially long) path to
Adobe Flash decline: the most popular video site out there – YouTube –
started offering videos in Flash-less mode for browsers which support HTML 5
and h.264 video codec.
This means that today the option is available for Chrome and Safari.
Then at some point they will likely add the Ogg codec and support Firefox, or
help Firefox get native h.264 codec support.
And then IE9 ships and all latest browsers will play videos natively. Flash
will no longer be required for video, and why would anyone want it then?
The whole story of Flash in retrospect is going to be an interesting one.
Adobe had 95-98% penetration in PC market for years and could not expand its
adoption beyond video.
They tried: kept improving the tools, added offline, even tried open-sourcing
it, and getting to the mobile market –... (more)
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Overall, very exciting times, and a great event put together by the folks at
SYS-CON! There was a lot of excitement and optimism throughout the event. As
someone put it: cloud computing is about 700 days old. That means that there
are a lot of arguments about definitions, and where things are going, and so
on. And that also gives a lot of vibe and a lot of fresh community spirit.
Below are my notes from all the sessions I attended at the last week’s
Cloud Computing Expo 2008 on:
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3
A few general comments on the conference.
First and foremost,... (more)
It's time to update you with the most recent statistics on the Java & PHP
software stacks' popularity within the Jelastiс PaaS. As usual, you'll see
the overall numbers, distribution by regions and the monthly trends. This
month, the results are more interesting with stats from another one of our
European hosting partners, Neohost, located in Ukraine.
Databases
MySQL continues to dominate as usual and it looks like other database servers
have almost no chance of overtaking it. Moreover, the MySQL market share has
expanded 2% compared to the previous month.
Looking by regions, it... (more)
A couple of weeks ago, we announced Jelastic’s new direction to sell our
products both to hosters (public cloud) and directly to enterprises (private
and hybrid cloud), which was welcomed by our current customers and industry
analysts. We also introduced (continued)
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Analysts should love hype – it lets them jump into a hot area and be the
thought leaders who everyone has to consult to make any sense out of what is
going on in the area.
“Cloud” is probably the most hyped word in the industry these days and
everyone has a definition of what it is. And despite this being a running
joke in the industry, everyone obviously needs definition conversion to
happen so we can start speaking the same language here.
U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) stepped in and did
– from my perspective – something truly amazing: they provided ... (more)
Dmitry Sotnikov is VP of Cloud at WSO2, building the cloud business for this leading middleware provider. Check out the WSO2 Cloud platform at 
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