Wide adoption of an open-source, open-standards CLOUD should be huge for everyone. It means customers won’t have to fear lock-in and technology companies can participate in a growing MARKET that spans cloud providers. Companies are already using OpenStack to provide public clouds, support, training and system integration services and HARDWARE and software products.

A GREAT analogy comes from the early days of the Internet: the transition away from fractured, proprietary flavors of UNIX toward open-source Linux. An open cloud stands to provide the same benefits for large-scale cloud COMPUTING that the Linux standard provided inside the server.

Wide adoption of an open-source, open-standards cloud should be huge for everyone. It means customers won’t have to fear lock-in and technology companies can participate in a growing market that spans cloud providers. Companies are already using OpenStack to provide public clouds, support, training and system integration services and hardware and software products.

A great analogy comes from the early days of the Internet: the transition away from fractured, proprietary flavors of UNIX toward open-source Linux. An open cloud stands to provide the same benefits for large-scale cloud computing that the Linux standard provided inside the server.