Microsoft: Cloud need only be open surface, not open source

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jul 29, 2011 12:08 AM EDT
ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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Microsoft is more open — at least on the surface — and that’s all that matters in the cloud era, one company exec maintains. At Oscon 2011, Gianugo Rabellino, Senior Director for Open Source Communities at Microsoft, said as long as the APIs, protocols and standards for the cloud are open, that is, open surface, customers don’t care about the underlying platform. So, it does not matter that the cloud is built primarily on open source technologies, notably Linux?

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