When To Use Open Source in the Enterprise — And When To Avoid It

“The recent collaboration between Rackspace and NASA on the open
source cloud called OpenStack marks a turning point for open source
software projects, which creative IT people have hidden away from
their bosses for years.

“RackSpace, a Web hosting provider, and NASA, the nation’s space
agency — which has been developing a scalable, secure cloud for
its scientists — agreed to donate their code to a non-profit, and
27 companies (mostly technology vendors) signed up to
participate.

“For RackSpace, OpenStack is a chance to avoid getting locked in
to some other vendor’s cloud software and to focus on what it does
best — managing data centers, the company says. NASA, which has
been under pressure from the government to cut its costs, gets
access to new outside technology for free.”

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