"This new development stage product will allow users to take full-advantage of their large high-definition TV displays for an amazing computer game experience, " he added.

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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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