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The critical momentum that the industry is seeing today for the open standards cloud movement is reminiscent of Linux and its turning point in the late 1990s, and we’re willing to bet that cloud will have a similar outcome – the triumph of open standards over proprietary approaches to cloud computing.

Read more from Daniel D. Frye, Vice President IBM Open Systems Development via WIRED.com/Insights.