Episode #11 featuring Aaron Levie, CEO and Co-Founder of Box.net and Duncan Johnston-Watt, CEO and Founder of Cloudsoft will air this coming Wednesday, April 28th at 3pm PST / 6pm EST.  Please join us!

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NEWS

Story 1  Oracle is now charging for an Open Document Format (ODF) plug-in for Microsoft Office.

Story 2  Previous TWiCC guest, Ellen Rubin of CloudSwitch attended the Cloud Computing Expo last week and blogs, “At first glance, cloud computing can appear to be ‘virtualization taken to its logical conclusion.’” She mentions a recent Gartner study noting cloud computing is the #2 priority for CIOs – trumped only by…virtualization.

Story 3  Salesforce has acquired business contacts directory startup, Jigsaw

STORY 4   F5 Networks made a big splash at Interop on Monday, announcing an upgrade to its BIG-IP line of application delivery controllers. The new version helps extend enterprise data center architecture to the cloud by letting tech departments employ “On-Demand IT” through a dynamic services model.

STORY 5  Story Red Hat extends Linux subscriptions to cloud computing