Within the next five years, there will be no 'cloud.' Just computing. Some will love it, others will fear it.

Ubuntu 12.10 promises to make life much better for companies using both OpenStack and Ubuntu Server with the addition of Canonical’s Ubuntu Cloud Archive.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water, the thought police are back. For years, the open source community was torn apart by fractious debates over what "open" meant and who was open enough. 

As is true of Cisco, RedHat, Rackspace and many other companies, Canonical has been steadily marrying its cloud strategy to the open source OpenStack platform. In February of last year, we discussed how Canonical was deepening its relationship with OpenStack, and it has kept doing so. Recently, Canonical released the Cloud Archive for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server, an online software repository from which administrators can download the latest versions of OpenStack, for use with the latest long-term support (LTS) release of Ubuntu.