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MANA GEMENT STRATEGIES F O R THE CL OUD R EV OL UTION

(BIND) and Sendmail, and they frequently depend on open
source code in their own infrastructure, which makes them
half-open even when they’d rather not be. They understand the
customer’s interest in more open standards and ease of move-
ment across vendors very well. But they won’t move in that di-
rection voluntarily. It’s up to you, the cloud user, to object

when they put barriers in your way. It’s up to customers to pry
open that door, already slightly ajar, that vendors lean against
so persistently.

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