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Amazon will be king of the cloud: Mark Shuttleworth

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By silicon.com

Published: 6 October 2009 11:35 GMT

Canonical chief Mark Shuttleworth has said Amazon will emerge as triumphant in the battle for the cloud.

Shuttleworth told a BT open source event yesterday that Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, or a closely related platform, will become the cloud standard.

If alternative clouds are to compete, he said, they must offer open source implementations and be compatible with the Amazon EC2 platform.

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For more, see Shuttleworth: Amazon will win cloud battle on ZDNet UK.

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