Archive of 'October, 2008'
Recently, so much ink has been spilt on our VC-backed brethren racing for the cash-conserving hills. Why they weren’t shooting for revenue and profitability from day one is beyond us.
Joyent believes when a company is built to be profitable from day one, market context is much less meaningful than the ability to expend effort and [...]
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We recently opened a Seattle office as a move to consolidate Joyent’s distributed development efforts with something concentrated in a specific place. You can read more about it here. Ben Black, recently of Microsoft, joins Joyent as VP, Research to help lead the efforts. Jason is moving up to Seattle as well.
Much more could be [...]
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BYOG (Build Your Own Grid)! Over the past few weeks I’ve been working with a couple of different companies to install, test, and document how to install and run Sun Grid Engine using Joyent Accelerators as the basic Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) building blocks Sun Grid Engine as the Platform as a Service [...]
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Today we got the good news that Axiom, a very interesting web framework that has been testing in the Joyent Labs, has emerged!
What is Axiom Stack?
Personally, I’m just getting to know Axiom Stack. But, I’ve very much enjoyed chatting with the team over the past few weeks. I think of Axiom Stack as [...]
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Joyent is the ideal cloud computing platform for running Sun’s brilliant Glassfish server. Why? Because, on Joyent, you can run Glassfish at 64-bit straight out of the box.
Today, Kent Langley threw together a quick wiki page entitled How to Install GlassFish on Joyent Accelerator to help you get up and running.
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Yesterday, Dave gave an introduction to Joyent to the people attending eBay’s ResearchFest event in San Jose. Here’s a video of Dave’s talk.
The event was also covered by Paul Krill over at infoworld.com
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