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Five Biggest Open Source Developments in 2012

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 3, 2013

1. The establishment of the OpenStack Foundation, which symbolized the strong growth that open source cloud solutions have enjoyed over the last year, while also providing a basis for continued momentum in this area going into 2013. At this point, the centrality of open source software–including not only the OpenStack cloud infrastructure but related technologies such as the KVM virtualization hypervisor and Hadoop Big Data platform–seems a foregone conclusion.
Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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