Red Hat goes for OpenStack's community jugular | Linux Today

Red Hat goes for OpenStack’s community jugular

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 1, 2011

[ Thanks to Amy Bennett for this link. ]

Red Hat has chosen to announce its new cloud management
software Aeolus with a fresh spin of being more community-oriented
than Aeolus’ competitor, OpenStack.

I find that kind of funny because in the olden days, Red Hat was
often accused of the same thing: not being a community player
compared to distributions like SUSE Linux, Debian GNU/Linux, and
Mandrake. Yet, here we are in 2010, with Red Hat pitching a cloud
offering to counter OpenStack’s by asserting the Aeolus development
process is more open and participatory.


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Web Webster

Web Webster

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