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UK Gov't Reneges On Open Source Promise For Cloudstore 2.0

Posted by timothy on from the promises-promises dept.

DerekduPreez writes "The UK government has finally unveiled the second iteration of its Cloudstore after a number of delays, and has reneged on its pledge to make version 2.0 open source. Cloudstore is an online catalogue that the public sector can use to procure cloud services provided by suppliers signed up to the G-Cloud framework. The first version of the Cloudstore was unveiled in February. Computerworld UK spoke to former G-Cloud director Chris Chant shortly after the first release, who was at the time also overseeing the second iteration. He stated during his interview that Cloudstore 2.0 would be go live in April and it would be built using open source code. However, following weeks of delays, the Cabinet Office has now confirmed that the second iteration also isn't open source."

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  1. WTH is CloudStore ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And what the hell is the G-Cloud ?

    I'm sorely tired of all these 'marketing' terms... I work at the pointy end of IT - y'know rack servers, networking, routers and all that... To me the 'Cloud' is just a box or boxes in a rack running Xen.

    Cloudstore sounds like yet another one of those soundbite services dreamed up by some slick suited tan and teeth marketing type.

    I had someone arguing with me the other day - they wanted to use "The Cloud" for something so I said sure I'll sort out some space on a server in a rack and they were like "No we don't want a server in a rack" we want "The Cloud"...

    So I sorted out some space on a server in a rack, gave em the login details and told em "There's your cloud"....