The Eye of Sauron Turns Upon OpenStack. Oracle responds by acquiring Nimbula
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“We did this with Linux, we did this with Eclipse, we aid this with Apache”
– Robert LeBlanc, IBM SVP Middleware Software
OpenStack was founded in July 2010, when Rackspace Hosting and NASA launched an open source project to support cloud computing services for storage, compute, block and object storage and so on. With the rise of Amazon Web Services as the defacto cloud standard, everyone else was desperate to get behind an alternative. OpenStack was the answer, and it immediately exploded. Everyone wanted in, which is not always a good thing.