A day before Red Nose Day 2009, Comic Relief's IT team is gearing up for "an event that we hope is bigger than ever this year," according to Comic Relief web technology manager Charlotte Melén. ... Hosting provider Carrenza helped develop Comic Relief's web and donations platforms, which are physically separate and run on different technology stacks. The public web sites are handled through a virtualised hosting and development platform using Linux operating systems, ...

What concerns me as much (and should have you thinking too, as your business is on the line if you are living in ignorance and not taking appropriate sustainable action as a result) is that perhaps the Guardian is charging extortion money ... Charlotte says: June 9th, 2009 at 10:37 am. Thanks for bringing this to the publics attention Peter…. Indeed I see your concerns over exploitative charges to such conferences and unfortunately this practice will exclude many SMEs and ...

Charlotte Melén, web technology manager at Comic Relief, knows that the day of the big TV event today will see a massive influx of visitors to the site. With around 25 per cent of all donations coming in during the seven-hour telethon, ... The donations platform is hosted free of charge by enterprise hosting service provider Carrenza, and is physically separate from the public web site. This runs Comic Relief's existing Java and Oracle platform, re-engineered by Carrenza ...

Charlotte Walker-Osborn. Walker-Osborn: Virtual worlds generate real financial transactions ... In the UK, for example, foreign laws can apply to UK web sites as well as UK laws. While virtual worlds could face more wide-reaching regulation in the not-too-distant future, there will still be jurisdictional complexities to resolve ... IBM gains a Second Life. The IT giant is hosting a private section of the online world, allowing secure business discussions 03 Apr 2008 ...