Open Stack
= Open source software for building private and public clouds
URL = http://www.openstack.org/
the Rackspace-owned cloud computing project is much-beloved in the open source community for the technology and the Apache license that covers the project. [1]
Description
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"OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering their users to provision resources through a web interface."
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"Joseph Smarr, Plaxo’s chief platform architect, and de facto leader of the Portable Contacts initiative, gave a talk today at the Web 2.0 conference in New York. Entitled “Tying it all together; Implementing the Open Web,” it was a rallying cry for developers to jump in and get working on the new “open stack” of OpenID, OAuth, OpenSocial, XRDS-Simple, and Portable Contacts.
Joseph asserted that the industry has now come together around a common vision for the future of the Social Web — a vision that abandons the walled garden model in favor of a new services layer that interconnects social hubs with the rest of the web. The service layer is comprised of Identity Providers, Social Graph Providers, and Content Aggregators." (http://therealmccrea.com/2008/09/19/joseph-smarr-at-web-20-on-the-new-open-stack/)
More Information
- See: OpenStack Foundation [2]