VMware has agreed to acquire DynamicOps, a provider of cloud application development software.

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The object of Deltacloud is to open up competition and choice in the cloud market, just as Red Hat Linux did in the hardware market, eliminating the switching cost of investing in a new stack of proprietary offerings and allowing cloud users to invest the savings into conducting application development that truly differentiates them.

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Today, IT can purchase cloud-based enterprise mobile device and app management, application development platforms and mobile business applications such as field service and CRM.

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They must sell public cloud compute IaaS as a stand-alone service, without the requirement to bundle it with managed hosting, application development, application maintenance or other outsourcing.

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