Apache CloudStack 4.0 Expands the Open Source Cloud

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Sean Michael Kerner
Nov 8, 2012

The Apache CloudStack 4.0 release continues the Cloud.com technology that Citrix acquired in July of 2011, in terms of both technology and perhaps more importantly, community contributions.

In moving to Apache, the CloudStack project has come to embrace the processes and procedures of the Apache Way. The project also needed to re-license code from the open source GPL license to the open source Apache license.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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