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  Sizzling open vs. proprietary debate heats up the cloud

  It's turning into a mud-slinging affair in the cloud computing industry.

  By Brandon Butler | 19 April, 2012 03:40

  Tags: Amazon Web Services, Apache Software Foundation, AWS, Citrix, cloud computing, cloud market, internet, open source clouds, OpenStack, VMware

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  OpenStack development finds big growing pains

  It's been an interesting past few weeks for OpenStack.

  By Brandon Butler | 06 April, 2012 08:32

  Tags: amazon, Amazon Web Services, Apache Software Foundation, Citrix, cloud computing, eucalyptus, Gartner, internet, NASA, open cloud, OpenStack, rackspace, software

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  Report: IBM, Red Hat to join OpenStack

  IBM and Red Hat could soon be joining the ranks of OpenStack supporters, giving the open source Cloud project a big boost.

  By Brandon Butler | 06 April, 2012 08:32

  Tags: Apache Software Foundation, cloud computing, dell, engine yard, equinix, IBM, Intel, internet, NASA, netapp, OpenStack, rackspace, Red Hat, software

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  OpenStack supporters downplay Citrix defection

  Top coordinators of the OpenStack project shot back at Citrix for dropping its support for the open-source cloud development platform in favor of starting a separate open source project based on an Apache license.

  By Brandon Butler | 04 April, 2012 06:39

  Tags: Apache Software Foundation, Citrix, cloud computing, Gartner, internet, open source, OpenStack, software, The Cloud

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  Citrix takes CloudStack to Apache, abandons OpenStack

  Citrix has abandoned its Olympus OpenStack distribution and will focus instead on its open-source CloudStack operating system, which it has contributed as a project under the Apache Software Foundation.

  By Nancy Gohring | 03 April, 2012 22:07

  Tags: Apache Software Foundation, Citrix Systems, cloud computing, Infrastructure services, internet, open source, OpenStack, software

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