Debian Founder Murdock Now Sun’s Cloud Strategist

Debian Founder Murdock Now Sun’s Cloud Strategist

Author JoeDigital

The founder of Debian Linux, and former chief at OpenSolaris, Ian Murdock, is moving to a new office, but sticking to the same crowd of work associates. Murdock is moving into the role of chief strategist for cloud computing at Sun Microsystems.

“Obviously I have a deep background in Linux distributions,” he said, referencing the work he had put into the origins of Linux
since 1993. “I think this is going to be a pretty big part of Sun’s
contribution to cloud computing.”

As netbooks become more basic, and web 2.0 applications become more powerful, many innovative companies, Sun Microsystems included, foresee a convergence in cloud computing technology, where data and program information as accessed in the “cloud” of the internet.And while the cloud may be a new term to Internet users today, it is also a long-time analogy for the internet itself, which has no central location, but exists as a series of “free-floating” nodes that connect to one another.

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