Reseller News Join Reseller News Sign up to gain exclusive access to email subscriptions, event invitations, competitions, giveaways, and much more.Sign up now Assessing the real value of open source in the cloud It’s a mistake to believe that running open source in the cloud will protect businesses from vendor lock-in. But open source certainly offers freedom and independence to developers There’s a lot of wishful thinking in ' For example, there’s the finding that 70 per cent of the more than 3,400 respondents “prefer cloud providers based on open source.” This sounds great until you ask, “What does it mean to be “based on open source?"