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Open source API to aid cloud-hopping businesses

IBM and Microsoft get behind plan for versatile cloud apps

Tags: business, cloud, api, open source

By silicon.com

Published: 24 September 2009 13:14 GMT

IBM and Microsoft have pledged support for the creation of an open source API that aims to simplify the process of switching cloud providers for organisations.

The Simple Cloud API project, courtesy of developer tools specialist Zend Technologies, launched on Tuesday. It will allow developers to makes apps in PHP, the common web-scripting language, in order that they can work with different clouds.

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Open source API for the cloud on its way (photo credit: turtlemom4bacon via Flickr under the following Creative Commons Licence)

ZDNet UK has more on the open source cloud API story here.

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