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This is one area in cloud computing that open source has a major advantage

Privately developed commercial software is going to be less secure in general than software where the code can be examined by experts and the world at large.

This implies that cloud computing offerings not only Microsoft but Google and Amazon are potentially less secure than say a cloud provider using Eucalyptus, though it's also true that open source is often used by the second two companies, more so than the first.

Consequently, it will be interesting to see how cloud security plays out though Microsoft has an acceptable record of security for their online services (not their operating systems however.)

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Dion Hinchcliffe

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