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We’re very excited to announce that we have updated the BitNami Magento Stack to include Beetailer, which provides automatic integration of your Magento store with Facebook. In just minutes, you can be driving 20% or more of your sales through Facebook and benefiting from the social networks of your customers. We attempted to put together the most entertaining press release that we could to share this great news, but our distribution service declined to publish it, so we had to tone down the official release. Thankfully, we have no such filter on our blog, so we’re pleased to … more

We’re excited to announce the newest addition to the BitNami library, the BitNami Magento Stack! Magento is an open source application for ecommerce. It provides a framework for building online stores, including a content management system, catalog management system, shopping cart, customer account management, Google Analytics integration, catalog browsing, coupon support and more. With the BitNami Magento Stack, you get a complete, ready-to-run environment that includes Magento and all of the other software it requires. Note that Magento itself will still require quite a bit of customization because the requirements of each online store are different. The BitNami … more

BitNami Announced Today its acquisition of Amazon Web Services, the leading platform for public cloud computing. San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) April 1st, 2011 — Leading online cloud vendor BitNami today announced it has acquired Amazon Web Services, a division of Amazon.com the world’s leading online retailer. The acquisition brings together two companies who share a passion for serving customers and whose customers benefit from cultures of innovation and long term thinking. BitNami makes it easy for developers and solution providers to deploy and manage popular open source applications natively, virtually and in the cloud. It’s flagship product, BitNami Cloud … more

After several months in private beta, we’re excited to announce that BitNami Cloud Hosting is now available! BitNami Cloud Hosting simplifies the process of deploying and managing open source and other applications in the cloud.

• One-click Application Deployment: Launch servers with one or more applications or development stacks from the BitNami library in one click. Currently available applications include: SugarCRM, Alfresco, JasperServer, Drupal, Wordpress and many others. You can view a list at: http://bitnami.org/cloud/apps
• Automatic Backups and One Click Server Restores: BitNami Cloud Hosting offers automated backups that can … more

As you may know, we recently released BitNami RubyStack 2.0, which includes a number of updates and enhancements. The primary changes are the addition of Ruby Enterprise for OS X and Linux and Phussion Passenger configured by default with Apache and Nginx. We have also improved performance and streamlined the deployment process. If you haven’t experimented with Ruby on Rails yet, BitNami RubyStack makes it incredibly easy. Just visit the download page and choose from a native installer, a virtual machine image, or a cloud template (for Amazon and GoGrid). Regardless of the deployment option you choose, you … more