Project Ophelia will be available in the first half of 2013 from Dell Cloud Client Computing.

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Ubuntu is a free, open-source platform for client, server and cloud computing.

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This is hardly surprising when one considers the client-focused benefits of cloud computing and the extraordinary market opportunities for vendors.

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Salesforce.com is a cloud computing player that specializes in providing client relationship management as well as other applications.

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