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Linuxcon: Intel Uses Open Source, OpenStack Cloud to Its Advantage

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Sean Michael Kerner
Sep 19, 2013

At LinuxCon, Dirk Hohndel, Intel’s chief Linux and open-source technologist, explains why Intel is invested in open source and what his company is doing with the OpenStack cloud.

NEW ORLEANS—Intel is a leading contributor to Linux as well as many other important open-source efforts, including the OpenStack cloud effort. In a keynote presentation Sept 18 at the LinuxCon conference here, Dirk Hohndel, chief Linux and open-source technologist at Intel, detailed why open source is important to Intel for development and for the cloud.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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