As The Register notes, Microsoft corporate strategy leader Rolf Harms spoke at the Cloud Connect conference in California this week, and said that "horseless carriage syndrome" typifies today's cloud computing business. He was referring to the fact that in the early days of the automobile, cars were designed very much like the carriages that had previously been powered by horses, with some of them even containing places to put a whip. "When you think about a new paradigm, it's very hard to do so without putting it in the context of the existing mindset," Harms noted.

Node.js had a busy week. Joyent relaunched its Node.js hosting service and O'Reilly Media posted a draft of Tom Hughes-Croucher's Up and Running with Node.js book. Node.js was also the star of a lengthy piece in the Register and pulled ahead of Clojure in Google Trends this week.

The Linux 2.6.38-rc6 kernel has been released. The 2.6.38 kernel is getting into shape and will soon be released with the sixth release candidate carrying a variety of small fixes throughout this open-source kernel...

Oracle has begun pushing another new version of Java while planning to shake up the group responsible for Java whose rules it has ignored in the past.…...