The founder of Debian Linux, and former chief at OpenSolaris, Ian Murdock, is moving to a new office, but sticking to the same crowd of work associates. Murdock is moving into the role of chief strategist for cloud computing at Sun Microsystems.

“Obviously I have a deep background in Linux distributions,” he said, referencing the work he had put into the origins of Linux
since 1993. “I think this is going to be a pretty big part of Sun’s
contribution to cloud computing.”

As netbooks become more basic, and web 2.0 applications become more powerful, many innovative companies, Sun Microsystems included, foresee a convergence in cloud computing technology, where data and program information as accessed in the “cloud” of the internet.And while the cloud may be a new term to Internet users today, it is also a long-time analogy for the internet itself, which has no central location, but exists as a series of “free-floating” nodes that connect to one another.

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