The battle between competing cloud-computing standards has caused a rupture in the open-cloud movement.

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Jackson also emphasized the need for open standards when dealing with virtualization and cloud computing, an extremely welcome step, but we can start with VMware View, allowing it to be hypervisor independent.

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Armijo says that several small cloud-computing firms including Elastra and Rightscale are already on board with 3Tera's standards group.

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