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Are proprietary software vendors edging open source out of cloud computing as well?

April 26, 2017cloud computing edging open source proprietary Software vendors

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Are proprietary software vendors edging open source out of cloud computing as well?

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I don’t agree that cloud computing is based on proprietary solutions – 90 per cent of all the clouds out there are based on open source technology, like Amazon’s elastic compute (EC2) infrastructure, which is based on RHEL, for example. Open source can provide all the components for the cloud, like virtualisation, grid computing platforms and management tools. The trick is to tailor open source offerings for cloud providers.