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VMware To Join OpenStack Foundation

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the welcome-to-the-club dept.

hypnosec writes "OpenStack Foundation, backed by virtualization players like Rackspace, Red Hat and IBM, is going to get a unexpected new member – VMware. According to a post on the OpenStack Foundation Wiki, the agenda of the Board of Directors meeting on August 28 includes the Gold membership of VMware as one of the topics. VMware is not the only one applying for Gold membership as Intel and NEC are also standing in line for their memberships as well."

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  1. Re:An interesting commentary by vlm · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He misses the point that in

    How do you commercialize

    the easiest way to commercialize is to hand hold and support and project manage.

    Selling a proprietary virtualization empire is, in the long run, about as likely to succeed as writing a text editor, so going all "IBM" and moving into services might be a pretty wise move for vmware.

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