Red Hat announced plans Monday to release an enterprise-grade version of the OpenStack open-source cloud framework.

The full commercial release is not expected until early 2013, but the company has posted a free, unsupported preview edition to familiarize users with OpenStack deployment, solicit feedback and ensure that customers’ concerns are addressed before the retail version is made available.

Red Hat has been a longtime contributor to OpenStack, ranking third (behind Nebula and Rackspace) in lines of code submitted, according to a recent survey released by project leaders.
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