It is done. As of Friday, October 24th 2008, Lovely Systems is an Aktiengesellschaft.*
Our new executive board members Jodok and Manfred will continue to steer the company’s fortunes. We are pleased to welcome our new supervisory board – Christian Lutz (chairman), Mag. Stephan Thurm and Dr. Reinhard Gaertner.

Christian Lutz (Chairman)

Für Innovationen hat unser Aufsichtsratsvorsitzende und Team-Coach ein gutes Gespür. Christian Lutz dachte schon Web 2.0, als andere noch auf Y2K warteten: schon 1999 gründete er mit uboot.com und sms.at zwei sehr erfolgreiche Communities. Heute ist er CEO seiner Beteiligungsholding uebermut.com mit sieben Startup-Beteiligungen, sowie in diversen Board-Funktionen bei diesen Unternehmen. Seit 2007 studiert Christian Lutz im Owner/President Management Program (OPM) der Harvard Business School.

Mag. Stephan Thurm

Was es heißt, ein IT-Unternehmen erfolgreich zu führen, weiß Stephan Thurm ganz genau. Von 1999 bis 2004 war er Geschäftsführer der Teleport Consulting & Systemmanagement GmbH – und damit ein Pionier der Entwicklung und Etablierung des Internet in Vorarlberg. Heute ist der gelernte Betriebswirt, Wirtschaftsinformatiker und Crossmedia-Experte (er studierte in München, Sydney und Wien) in der Geschäftsführung Digital des OVB Medienhaus (Ippen Gruppe) in Rosenheim, wo er sich neuen Internetprojekten widmet.

Dr. Reinhard Gaertner

Reinhard Gaertner ist Head of Media & Entertainment TWG bei Taylor Wessing Deutschland. Er berät Unternehmen der Medien- und IT-Branche in allen wesentlichen Rechtsfragen, die in Zusammenhang mit der operativen Geschäftstätigkeit stehen. Dazu gehören insbesondere die Bereiche Urheberrecht, gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und das Vertriebsrecht. Der promovierte Jurist ist Mitglied im Rechtsausschuss des Verbands Deutscher Zeitschriftenverleger (VDZ) sowie der Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Verlagsjustitiare.

* Public Limited Company (PLC), Incorporation

The Semantic Web is the extension of the World Wide Web that enables people to share content beyond the boundaries of applications and websites. It has been described in rather different ways: as a utopic vision, as a web of data, or merely as a natural paradigm shift in our daily use of the Web. Most of all, the Semantic Web has inspired and engaged many people to create innovative semantic technologies and applications.

ISWC is the major conference where visionary and state-of-the-art research of all aspects of the Semantic Web are presented.

As you know, Lovely Systems is actively doing research and customer project in this area. Please meet Stefan Martin from our team there!

St. Martin - our chief mathematician - and Kienes - our man for HTML/CSS/JavaScript - will be at Facebook Developer Garage in Berlin.

We strongy believe that the combination of Google App Engine and Facebook is really powerful and look forward to implement the next Applications with our customers.

According to Gartner (found at http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=10441) these are the top 10 technologies to watch the next 3 years.

So how deals Lovely Systems with this?

#1 we’re virtualizing our Linux environment since August 13th, 2006 (see our Blog)

#2 our first production cloud server was launched at December 11th 2006 (see our Blog)

#3 sorry, i don’t believe in that :)

#4 well, forget Enterprise Java Beans, SOAP,…
we’re on more lightweight stuff. REST (Talk at Plone Conference in Seattle, 2006), JSON-RPC (this year)

#7 uhm, what are we doing for our customers?

#8 funny. honestly, we’re running on VoIP,.. .since October 20th, 2005.

This Time no Python related news :)
Congratulations to Michael. You and your team at RjDj.me made it.
RjDj is a music application for the Iphone. It uses sensory input to generate and control the music you are listening to.
Michael Breidenbrücker - former Partner and Co-Founder of Lovely Systems is nowdays CEO of Reality Jockey Ltd. 
Buy RjDj for just $2.99 from the Apple AppStore.

Our new database server is online! Bye bye Solaris, welcome back Linux

4 Dual Core CPUs, 132GB RAM. Fat Fiber Channel SAN connection. looking forward to some real world benchmarks!


top - 14:17:54 up 2 days, 2:53, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks: 134 total, 1 running, 133 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu0 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu1 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu2 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu3 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu4 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu5 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu6 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu7 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 132083408k total, 768752k used, 131314656k free, 116028k buffers
Swap: 2096472k total, 0k used, 2096472k free, 538460k cached


today we received an e-mail from Amazon Web Services:

Hello,

We have noticed that one or more of your instances are running on a host
degraded due to hardware failure.

   i-c4b111ad

The risk of your instances failing is increased at this point. We cannot
determine the health of any applications running on the instances. We
recommend that you launch replacement instances and start migrating
to them.

Feel free to terminate the instances with the ec2-terminate-instance API
when you are done with them.

Let us know if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

The Amazon EC2 Team

Reference: dd735587-a56f-4b29-a3a2-fc2c7e2ca228

 
 
and yes, the machine had failures:

end_request: I/O error, dev sda1, sector 17383424
Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 2172928
lost page write due to I/O error on sda1
end_request: I/O error, dev sda1, sector 17383624
Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 2172953
lost page write due to I/O error on sda1
Aborting journal on device sda1.
end_request: I/O error, dev sda1, sector 17383624
Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 2172953
lost page write due to I/O error on sda1
EXT3-fs error (device sda1) in ext3_ordered_writepage: IO failure
end_request: I/O error, dev sda1, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 0
lost page write due to I/O error on sda1
ext3_abort called.
EXT3-fs error (device sda1): ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted journal
Remounting filesystem read-only
end_request: I/O error, dev sda1, sector 8920928
end_request: I/O error, dev sda1, sector 8920928
end_request: I/O error, dev sda1, sector 8920928
end_request: I/O error, dev sda1, sector 8920928
end_request: I/O error, dev sda1, sector 8920928

Lovely is hiring. We’re looking for 5 talented people. If you place someone in a job at Lovely Systems we’ll pay to up to € 2,000.- per person.

Here are the rules:
- € 2,000.- if the person starts working in October
- € 1,000.- if the person starts in November
- The person needs to stay at least 12 month at Lovely Systems. Money will be payed after 12 month.

Check our Jobs.