A few interesting links I noticed tonight.
HP Delivers Industry-first Management Capabilities for Microsoft System Center
That’s not going to improve the relationship between the Insight Control group (part of the server hardware group, of Compaq heritage) and the BTO group (part of HP Software, of HP heritage plus many acquisitions) in HP. The Microsoft relationship was already a point of tension when they were still called SIM and OpenView, respectively.
Constructive destruction at work.
Setting up a load-balanced Oracle Weblogic cluster in Amazon EC2
It’s got to become easier, whether Oracle or somebody else does it. In the meantime, this is a good reference.
[UPDATED 2009/07/12: If you liked the "WebLogic on EC2" article, check out the follow-up: "Full Weblogic Load-Balancing in EC2 with Amazon ELB".]