Pivotal CEO Maritz wants to disrupt Amazon’s cloud computing disruption

Grazed from Yahoo. Author: Aaron Pressman.

As the era of cloud computing begins, Paul Maritz, CEO of Pivotal, wants to see a more open outcome than the information technology industry is used to. In fact, he’s betting on it. Pivotal, a spinoff from EMC (EMC) and VMWare (VMW), where Maritz served as CEO for four years, is building an open cloud computing platform that can run on top of many kinds of underlying cloud servers.

“We’re coming to the end of a 30- or 40-year era in the IT industry,” Martiz said on Wednesday, speaking at the Oasis Montgomery Summit in Santa Monica, California. “This really is a very profound shift that’s happening.” That may not be what the biggest cloud providers, Microsoft (MSFT), Google (GOOG) and particularly Amazon (AMZN), are seeking. They’re battling for dominance comparable to Windows on the PC or IBM (IBM) in mainframes, Maritz says…

Dominant platforms

Maritz knows all about dominant IT platforms. He spent 14 years at Microsoft, where he helped develop Windows 95 and Windows NT. Later, he helped run over Netscape’s Internet browser with Microsoft’s own Internet Explorer. Pivotal is focusing on open standards, creating cloud-based software that companies could run on any of the major players’ cloud servers. Maritz says Pivotal aims to be the Linux of the cloud…

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