
EC2 will become the cloud standard says Ubuntu boss
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.
For more, see Shuttleworth: Amazon will win cloud battle on ZDNet UK.
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