In HyperLINKS today…San Francisco computer hacker causes chaos for administrators, while cloud coverage continues to float on the web
Distressed San Francisco network administrator pleads “not guilty” to computer tampering, an incident that will cost $250,000 to repair
Bruce Guptill and William S. McNee write about the evolution of SaaS and cloud computing
Phil Wainewright questions [...]

Hump Day HyperLINKS bring CloudStatus interviews and discussion of virtualization as mainstream
Tom Sullivan of InfoWorld questions whether single-vendor open source is getting too risky

Paolo Del Nibletto speaks with Forrester Research Analyst Frank Gillett about virtualization evolving into a mainstream market
Robin Miller of Linux.com and Slashdot  interviews our very own Jon Travis on CloudStatus

CloudStatus coverage continues while disgruntled San Franciscan blocks FiberWAN access…
Hot off the press! Andrea James of the Seattle Post Intelligencer covers the CloudStatus announcement

John Leyden writes about a peeved employee who blocked access to FiberWAN network, causing an uproar among San Francisco officials

Glyn Moody discusses how cloud computers are deemed as “free riders” for [...]

Cloud coverage discussion still buzzing in today’s HyperLINKS…
Some more news from Google Doc’s recent downtime…Stephen Shankland writes about the downtime, and the potential problems of applications moving to the cloud
More discussion on the risks of cloud computing…Dennis Barker outlines the details
Forrester research concludes that Europeans appreciate low costs but question the support of open [...]

Apple 3G iPhone is now available…the whole tech world has “almost” stopped
More CloudStatus coverage…Stephen Shankland writes about cloud trust issues, includes Hyperic’s CloudStatus in the article with some quotes from Stacey
In other news, Joe McKendrick writes about raised expectations for cloud computing, warning that vendors may not be able to deliver or meet them
More VMware [...]

Some more big news coming out of Yahoo! today. Here are today’s HyperLINKS:
Larry Dignan writes about Yahoo Search BOSS, which allows developers and companies to create and launch web-scale search products by utilizing the same infrastructure and technology that powers Yahoo! Search
Baseline’s Ericka Chickowski provides 10 steps towards simplifying systems management
WashingtonPost.com says Stanford has [...]

Happy Hump Day! Here are today’s headlines that we have been reading:
Stories about Diane Greene departure from VMware keep on coming. Richard Adhikari writes about the shakedown at VMware, including assessment of the problems that contributed to Green’s departure
In other news, Linda Tucci offers five reasons as to why cloud computing will continue [...]

If you’ll be joining us at OSCON this year, be sure and check out the Evolution of Community panel featuring yours truly.
Over the past ten years, nothing has impacted business more than community. Whether through the openness of software development spurred by Linux or the dismantling of media empires through blogging, the rise of communities [...]

Very interesting headlines in today’s HyperLINKS. Here are Tuesday’s tidbits:
VMware’s CEO and co-founder, Diane Green, has been let go and Paul Maritz (a former Microsoft Exec) is replacing her
Larry Dignan writes about a study that has shown the staggering rise in enterprise IT investment since 1994, from $3.5k per employee then, to $8k now
Merrill [...]

It’s time for a new addition to the HQ 3.2 family.  HQ 3.2.4 is now available and ready for download. This release is a roll-up of the bug fixes since HQ 3.2.3.
For a rundown of the fixes available in HQ 3.2.4, check out the Release Notes for the high level summary and a link to [...]