Ubuntu has been a firm favourite for me, and for nearly 10 million other people worldwide as the operating system of choice, due to ease-of-use and the unmatched ability to shape and alter the opensource operating system to suite your needs.
Canonical, the founders of Ubuntu, have recently announced that they wish to enter the new and frantic business that is cloud computing.Canonical are doing it with a twist however – It’s being supplied by an opensource company.
Next month, details will be revealed as to how the set-up will work. Nothing else has been said, other than Canonical is not planning to do something revolutionary, but rather in an open and community-based way.
2 Responses to “Canonical Planning for Opensource Cloud Computing”
on March 26th, 2009 at 7:44 am #
Cloud Computing: The Brand Naming MacGuffin for 2009…
It seems that I am not the only person fed up with the term cloud computing. This term, which the Wall Street Journal, among others, struggles to define, may become one of those annoying trend labels, like Cyberspace and Web 2.0, that the tech industry…
I’m got to agree. It’s getting a bit overused and its definition is becoming more and more blurred.