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Nearly half of developers working on open source projects plan to offer applications as web services offerings using cloud providers, according to results of a new Evans Data open source development survey.
InternetNews.com has learned that a new survey set for official release on January 20th will report that 40 percent of open source project developers are planning on cloud deployments for their projects.
I've read a bit of angst about cloud lock-in, a lot of weed pulling in the form of interoperability standards for the cloud, and a manifesto or two about 'Open Cloud'. And in between, I've seen lots of interesting new tools for cloud computing, and lots of narratives about how the tools, combined with the formalization of use cases, pave the way for open clouds.
The Meta Cloud is one step closer to meta-reality. Last week, at OSCON, a San Jose startup known as Cloudkick unveiled an open source project that hopes to provide a single programming interface for a host of so-called infrastructure clouds, including Amazon EC2, Rackspace Cloud Servers, Slicehost, and GoGrid.
I wrote recently about the potential of open source software as a platform for cloud computing. Since then I’ve been involved in a couple of conversations with prospective cloud users that have further highlighted the opportunity for an open source cloud.
The cloud isn't just for network administrators looking for scale, it's also a key development area for developers building applications with open source dynamic languages.
They may sound like manga characters with names like Bitnami, CollectD, Enomaly, OpenNebula, RabbitMQ and Zenoss but these eleven open source projects are growing fast and are likely to be your best bet for deploying and managing cloud computing
Open source specialist SugarCRM has developed the Sugar Open Cloud, an on-demand open platform. "Parts of open source and parts of the cloud come together," explained Martin Schneider.
