Chris Degiere and Associates

A great visual Map of the Cloud Computing/SaaS/PaaS Markets:

Via: Oracle Architect Peter Laird’s Blog.

Here’s two trend analysis examples from two different sources that I use regularly.

The first is based on job posting keywords which is useful to gauge how marketable your skill set is or how likely you are to find staff given the skills you require. Here’s a simple example. Go Java!

via: indeed.com

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I’m excited about the cloud computing related content that was presented at JavaOne this year.

Sun announced a partnership with Amazon to offer OpenSolaris as an operating system choice on their Amazon EC2 (Elastic Computing Cloud) offering.

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I just wrapped up JavaOne this year, but I flew in too late to catch the second annual CommunityOne Conference on Monday, which is more or less a free one day version of the JavaOne conference.

You can attend general session talks, panels, and technical sessions just like JavaOne but for free!

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Here’s a really great visualization of the top level domains of the world listed by iso country code and sized by population.

Via: Bytelevel and BoingBoing.