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We've covered Moodle before. It's one of the biggest players in software and platforms for e-learning (online seminars, webinars and the like) and it's also free and open source. Now, Infinity Learning Solutions has announced a cloud computing solution for Moodle leveraging the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. The move may let interested parties--such as the many universities that use Moodle--deliver high-end e-learning content, such as streaming video classes. They're also likely to be able to deliver such content without facing high costs.

For years, you could tell the hottest open-source projects by the number of programmers on an e-mail list, or by the number of books published. Increasingly, though, the hottest projects are those around whom service-oriented businesses are being formed. Yesterday, Ruby on Rails hosting company Engine Yard received a $15 million series B round from NEA, Amazon, and Benchmark. This follows an earlier $3.5 million round in January of this year.