If you are older, like me, you remember the major technology battles in markets like ERP, relational database, and UNIX (you know – the thing people used before Linux).  But that was then. Now the big battle is in “cloud computing” and it appears the major Linux vendors are drawing battle lines.

In one corner:  OpenStack boasts 128 companies and 1644 people behind their open source cloud computing solution. This week, SUSE announced becoming a member of the OpenStack movement. OpenStack has Rackspace, NASA, and Ubuntu (Canonical) already behind it.

In the other corner:  Red Hat  is developing their own cloud computing standards with:
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