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Starting pretty much immediately, we're looking to add some talented folks to our team to focus on diving into the communities behind the open source applications we support (81 and counting). If that's you, please get in touch with a resume and cover letter. Or forward on to anyone you know. Thanks!

Here's the gig description:

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Our latest release is code-named "Officer Eddie," the blockhead who accompanies Chief Wiggum on almost every mission.

Well, we're on a mission ourselves: to adjust processes in our system to align better with your expectations and needs. Here are some of the latest features to hit the system:

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Cloud Tweets

@sean_kelley_ms (Sean Kelley) tweeted: " The PaaS Score Card :http://bit.ly/fV5vAF > Nice well rounded approach to evaluating PaaS offerrings."

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We're psyched to announce another sponsorship of Startup Weekend:  In the fall, we tested out a partnership by giving away two months of our service to attendees of the Denver Startup Weekend and learned some things from the event.

Now, we're sponsoring another Startup Weekend in our own backyard, here in Boulder, where Startup Weekend was founded in 2007 by local tech evangelist Andrew Hyde (now on a personal world tour). The event takes place Feb. 25-27 in the TechStars Bunker.

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Cloud Tweets

@monkchips (James Governor) tweeted: "Benioff describes Ruby as "the language of the cloud", acquires Heroku. Oracle drops IDE support for Ruby."

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When we announced our series B funding last fall, we quietly mentioned that we were launching the Standing Cloud Application Network, where end users can find applications and their plugins, a cloud infrastructure on which to launch them, and solution providers to help them customize the application to suit their business needs.

Yesterday, after two months of adding solution providers to the Application Network, we announced it to the world, along with a comment from one of our solution provider partners:

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Cloud Tweets

@krishnan (Krish) tweeted: "@swardley I always thought business agility is more important than any cost considerations in the cloud."

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We've got "cloud" in our name because without the cloud, we wouldn't be able to deliver what you really need: business results through software. When you think about finding solutions to your business problems, you think first (and perhaps only) in terms of applications.  For many people, where you host your application may be an afterthought, if any thought at all.

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We've added support for OpenPublish, and upgraded to Drupal 7.0. Read on to find out what makes these apps so great.

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The most difficult thing about the cloud is agreeing on a definition.

In a webinar presentation last week on the “State of the Cloud,” Forrester Research and cloud security company Symplified defined cloud as “a standardized IT capability (incorporating service, software and infrastructure), delivered via Internet technology, in a pay-per-use, self-service way” and offered by both software and hardware companies. The presentation covered everything from cloud-washing to the driving forces behind cloud adoption world-wide.

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