Cloud Computing: Chinese, Russian, tech giants join global open source efforts
August 17, 2015
Grazed from TheRegister. Author: Simon Sharwood.
Notable tech companies from China and Russia are taking strides into the heart of the global technology community. Aliyun, the cloud computing offshoot of Business-to-business tat bazaar Alibaba, has become an Advisory Board member of the Xen Project, maker of the popular (if frequently-perforated) open source Xen hypervisor.
The Xen project says Aliuyn “has been contributing vulnerability fixes to the project for some time.” Xen Project Advisory Board members have the right to “propose and vote upon changes and additions to Xen Project test and validation infrastructure” and enjoy access to project leaders and the chance “to share technical and marketing priorities, and endorse new strategies for the project.” Financial contributions aren’t required…
The benefits of joining the board can be understood if one considers that ARM-CPUs-for-servers aspirant Cavium in June 2014. When Xen 4.5 debuted in January 2015, Cavium was a major contributor and the project’s code played nicely with its Thunder line of processors…
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