Host­ing com­pany Rack­Space is open sourc­ing the soft­ware behind its cloud stor­age and com­put­ing plat­forms on Mon­day, the com­pany is say­ing. The com­pany is also prepar­ing to launch Open­Stack, an open source cloud plat­form, and will donate the open source code to that project.

NASA is also incor­po­rat­ing tech­nol­ogy from the NASA Neb­ula Cloud Plat­form into the Open­Stack project, says RackSpace.

Rack­Space says they want to drive inter­op­er­abil­ity in cloud ser­vices to avoid ven­dor lock-in, and help cre­ate indus­try stan­dards. More than 25 com­pa­nies have shown inter­est in the project, says Rack­Space, or are actively work­ing on the code. They include AMD, Cit­rix, Cloud.com, Cloud­kick, CloudSwitch, Dell, enStra­tus, Fath­omDB, Lime­light, Nicira, NTT DATA, Opscode, Peer 1, Pup­pet Labs, RightScale, Rip­tano, Scalr, Son­ian, Spice­works and Zuora.

The code is being released under the extremely flex­i­ble Apache 2 license, mean­ing third par­ties can redis­trib­ute the code, build pro­pri­etary soft­ware around the code, and dis­trib­ute it with few restric­tions.

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