Google Joins the Open Source Cloud Foundry Foundation (betanews.com) 6
BrianFagioli quotes a report from BetaNews: Today, Google announces that it has joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation as a gold member. This is yet another example of the search giant's open source focus. Google joins some other respected companies at this membership level, such as Verizon, GE Digital, and Huawei to name a few. For whatever reason, the search giant stopped short of committing as the highest-level platinum member, however. "From the beginning, our goal for Google Cloud Platform has been to build the most open cloud for all developers and businesses alike, and make it easy for them to build and run great software. A big part of this is being an active member of the open source community and working directly with developers where they are, whether they're at an emerging startup or a large enterprise. Today we're pleased to announce that Google has joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation as a Gold member to further our commitment to these goals", says Brian Stevens, Vice President, Google Cloud.
Overheard at the meeting (Score:1)
"Did Bill's boys go platinum [level]?"
"Naah; they were hoping there was a silver, so they could at least match it up with Silverlight, etc, etc.
"Let's wait some more. Pick gold in the meantime."
and, in a golf-announcer-type voice, the speaker remarked,"And we have Google joining, at 'gold' level..."
Re: (Score:2)
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