"Over the past week, I've been looking through the various appliance projects hosted at rPath's rBuilder project site with an eye toward what could a hosting company borrow or participate in. rPath is a company that's building software that makes it easier to manage, deploy, and create applications that can be built as either virtualized or physical appliances.
"Aside from the obvious, like the LAMP project, there are numerous appliances that fit into various vertical markets that many hosting companies are starting to enter. A company could grab a project and apply its own magic to it to fit it into its existing provisioning, control panel, and other infrastructure systems..."
