Software Revolution, Part Ii: The Shift To Cloud Computing

WHY FREE SOFTWARE IS MORE IMPORTANT NOW THAN EVER BEFORE



Then, Google Google was born and grew into the behemoth that it is today, tasked with serving the millions and ultimately billions of consumers making trillions or quadrillions of searches. Many of the innovations we see now are a direct result of Googles response to the Internets rapid growth, and many are related to cloud computing. Other consumer web businesses have followed suit. Amazon , for example, became so adept at managing its own data centers and infrastructure that it began offering these skills to third party developers, as Amazon Web Services . The same transition to cloud infrastructure is now happening in enterprise software. Tech firms caught on to this trend and began building similar services solely for enterprises. As a result, businesses no longer need to hire expensive IT consultants or staff to make complicated decisions about hardware or suites of software products. Instead, they have options.




NEW IBM SMARTER CITIES SOFTWARE ON THE CLOUD HELPS CITIES TRANSFORM



Now, you might be thinking that a scanner or a Post-it pad is a natural fit in the Evernote universe, but bags and wallets? Well, you need somewhere to put all those devices running Evernote software, right? And the company sees no reason why they can't be the source for all the stuff that makes your life better, both directly and indirectly. AI is such a core concept to the company that Evernote has hired a VP of Augmented Intelligence. Mark Ayzenshtat is that VP, and his philosophy is that users' minds are the most important platform, and Evernote's products and services are made according to that guiding principle. That means building software that shapes itself to user needs and providing products that "call up the best benefits of that software." Basically, everything sold with Evernote's name on it is built to amplify your productivity -- not by dictating behavior, but by cooperating with your existing habits. By that reasoning, selling a backpack that makes it easier to access your bike helmet before you cycle home from the office, or a quality cover that keeps your slate pristine makes sense.



STUDY: INTERNET SALES TAX SOFTWARE WILL BE COSTLY TO IMPLEMENT



"Future automotive systems from 2015 and beyond will demand fast startup capabilities and fast rendering performance for high-quality designs that match the luxuriousness of the vehicles using these embedded R-Car-based devices, as well as the ability to help the driver establish an even higher level of safety with the vehicle," said Tatsuya Nishihara, vice president, chief of Automotive Solutions Business Division at Renesas Electronics. "The combination of Renesas' new R-Car devices with Green Hills Software's commitment to functional safety requirements bundled with its high-quality and high-performance INTEGRITY RTOS and INTEGRITY Multivisor virtualization technology provides a platform that our customers both demand and will enjoy using." Green Hills Software offers a comprehensive solution for ARM Cortex-A15 and A7 devices including the following major components: INTEGRITY Multivisor technology combines a trusted microkernel with system virtualization technology into an IVI platform featuring configurable software partitions, shared graphics, real-time and safety-critical processing, and one or more infotainment guest operating systems INTEGRITY RTOS for applications demanding safety, reliability and security with HMI design software and drivers for the INTEGRITY RTOS MULTI integrated software development environment featuring multicore debugger, profiler and many other integrated time-saving tools Tool chain compliant to automotive and industrial safety standards ISO 26262 Automotive Safety Integrity Level D (ASIL-D) and IEC 61508 Safety Integrity Level 3 (SIL 3) TimeMachine debugger and SuperTrace probe for revolutionary rewind debugging and non-intrusive analysis EEMBC-certified C/C++ compilers for R-Car's Cortex-A15 and A7 cores that outperform competing compilers as much as 30-35% Code quality tools including MISRA C/C++ and DoubleCheck static analyzer Green Hills probe for hardware bring-up and low-level debugging and development "Green Hills is excited to support the new R-Car devices as part of its more than 20-year history of supporting Renesas' automotive devices," said Tim Reed, vice president of Advanced Products at Green Hills Software. "Green Hills is a market leader with a long history of applying its leading-edge RTOS, compiler, debugging and hypervisor software technology to ARM-based processors." About Green Hills Software Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software is the largest independent vendor of embedded development solutions. In 2008, the Green Hills INTEGRITY-178B RTOS was the first and only operating system to be certified by NIAP (National Information Assurance Partnership comprised of NSA & NIST) to Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 6+, High Robustness, the highest level of security ever achieved for any software product. Our open architecture integrated development solutions address deeply embedded, absolute security and high-reliability applications for the military/avionics, medical, industrial, automotive, networking, consumer and other markets that demand industry-certified solutions. Green Hills Software is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA, with European headquarters in the United Kingdom. Visit Green Hills Software at . Green Hills, the Green Hills logo, MULTI, INTEGRITY, Multivisor, TimeMachine, DoubleCheck and SuperTrace are trademarks or registered trademarks of Green Hills Software in the U.S. and/or internationally.



MASSACHUSETTS REPEALS SOFTWARE-AND-SERVICES TAX



Samsung is releasing a cache of application programming interfaces (APIs) and working with enterprise software companies, so they can tweak their programs to use some of the unique features on Samsung devices. The move spells further fragmentation of the Android platform, and also looks like part of a broader attempt by Samsung to differentiateitself from other device makers, by optimizing software to work best on its own gadgets. The Samsung Solutions Exchange says it aims to, for instance, make it possible for a software enterprise makers to create a program for doctors toutilize Air Gesture on a Galaxy Tab tablet a feature that lets you wave your hand in front of the device rather than touch the screen to scroll. (Apparently useful for the gloved.) Through the Exchange, Samsungis providing the software development kit for the device, and also the APIthat allows a enterprise software vendor to write to Air Gesture. The API release will let software vendors optimize their code for other features like the Samsung S-Pen, Air View and S-Voice. The project is overseen by Tim Wagner, vice president of Samsungs enterprise business unit in the U.S., who happens to have spent five years atBlackBerry before joining Samsung in 2010. What attracted me to Samsung was the pace at which they released technology and their undying willingness to satisfy any customer requirement, he says. We have the support to tackle the enterprise marketplace. Till now, Samsungs main efforts in getting into mobile enterprise market once dominated by BlackBerry, was in selling its security offerings SAFE and KNOX. These were software solutions aimed at tackling the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) to work challenge, so that corporate applications andnetworks could securely co-exist on a persons smartphone along with theirpersonal apps and data.



SAMSUNG'S LATEST ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE PLAY: THE RELEASE OF 1,000 APIS



The city is using IBM's new infrastructure planning software to examine millions of disparate pieces of information to perform what-if analyses to help make better decisions. Algorithms process the data and predict which assets will fail and when, helping city staff look across all departments and decide, for example, whether a sewer pipe should be re-lined or replaced entirely, or if a roadway should be resurfaced at the same time. It also incorporates a financial planning tool to help more effectively use funding for each project. Through better project coordination, less time spent on capital forecasting, and improved asset management, the City of Cambridge is expected to save at least $100,000 per year. "When developing new infrastructure, it should be from the ground up - underground sewer pipes to surface streets and storm drains.



GREEN HILLS SOFTWARE EXPANDS INTEGRITY RTOS SUPPORT TO RENESAS' 2ND-GENERATION R-CAR PRODUCT FAMILY



If you bring software toclass, you may not keep it for yourself. Rather, you must share copieswith the rest of the class including the programs source code, incase someone else wants to learn. Therefore, bringing proprietarysoftware to class is not permitted, unless it is for reverseengineering practice. In computing, cooperation includes redistributing exact copies of aprogram to other users. It also includes distributing your changedversions to them. Free software encourages these forms of cooperation,while proprietary software forbids them. It forbids redistribution ofcopies, and by denying users the source code, it blocks them frommaking changes. SaaSS has the same effects: If your computing is doneover the web in someone elses server, by someone elses copy of aprogram you cant see it or touch the software that does yourcomputing, so you cant redistribute it or change it.



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EVERNOTE GETS PHYSICAL: WHY A SOFTWARE MAKER'S TURNING TO TANGIBLE GOODS



Supporters of the bill say the current rules are unfair to bricks-and-mortar businesses required to collect sales tax. The bill, which is waiting for action in the House of Representatives, would exempt Internet sellers with less than $1 million a year in sales from collecting sales tax for other states. Supporters of the bill should require states to pay for software integration costs if they think it will be easy, said Steve DelBianco, executive director of NetChoice, an e-commerce trade group opposed to the sales tax bill. The bill doesnt require states to help with software integration costs, he said. The claim that its free and easy and that this is plug-and-play out of the boxmisses the whole notion of software integration, DelBianco said. Its not free and easy, and its not affordable. The study covers Internet businesses with sales between $5 million and $50 million a year. Among the set-up fees, according to the study: $30,000 to $100,000 in website implementation for the sales tax software and $40,000 to $100,00 for order management system integration.
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