Cloud Computing: Oracle saddles up with OpenStack distributor Mirantis

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.

Joining a plethora of other vendors to support the open source cloud computing platform, software giant Oracle this week announced a partnership with pure-play OpenStack distributor Mirantis, blessing this company’s open source software to support Oracle Linux and Oracle VMs.

This is not Oracle’s first foray into the OpenStack community – in fact the company is a corporate sponsor of OpenStack and has its own distribution of the open source cloud management platform. But, it is one of the company’s first alliances in this competitive, yet still nascent community…

So why partner with a pure-play OpenStack vendor? Oracle says it’s to give customers more choice. Now not only will Oracle support OpenStack in its products, but a third-party, OpenStack distributor will now support Oracle in its OpenStack software…

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