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All hail openness! EMC gets with the open-source program

Over the past few years there has been a race among old-school tech providers—companies like IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, VMware—to paper over their proprietary roots by open-sourcing at least some of their technologies.

That typically means releasing software code that had been closed off from outside eyes to any developer who wanted to work with it

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