Virtualization, viewed as one of the most promising technology investments in an economic downturn, is of great interest to enterprises seeking to build a flexible IT infrastructure that can keep pace with rapid business change. Investments are being made in proven products for infrastructure virtualization management, dynamic workload management, moving edge applications to cloud computing service providers, and tools for power management - to name just a few.Adrian Otto wrote: In response to:
"What's unclear is whether they may develop some Drizzle-related functionality that they will then not release as open source and just rent out to Rackspace hosting customers...that would be a way for them to differentiate themselves from competitors and GPLv2 would in principle allow this."
Rackspace has no plans to develop parts of Drizzle that are not in the open domain. I imagine Rackspace specific things like how it may integrate with our internal billing system may not be useful to the open community, and would not be developed by the open source group. Any features...
Mar. 15, 2010 02:54 PM EDT
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