Pivotal CEO Claims Cloud Foundry is the Most Important Innovation Since Linux | Linux Today

Pivotal CEO Claims Cloud Foundry is the Most Important Innovation Since Linux

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Web Webster
Web Webster
May 7, 2014

“We’re seeing the birth and the formation of something that I believe will become as important to our industry as Linux has been over the last 20 years,” Maritz said.

Maritz added that he’s trying to leverage all the lessons learned on how to build an open software platform and how to engage an ecosystem. Part of the goal of having an ecosystem around Cloud Foundry is to ‘fill in the blanks’ that Pivotal itself is not providing.

Web Webster

Web Webster

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