OpenStack Kilo Set to Debut in April 2015

Jul 17, 2014
1 minute read

From the ‘What Follows Juno’? files:

At long last, the OpenStack Community has settled on a name for its’ ‘K’ release that is setopenstackto follow the Juno release which should be out in October.

The K release is now officially known as: Kilo

OpenStack release manager Thierry Carrez wrote:

"k" is the unit symbol for "kilo", a SI unit prefix (derived from the Greek word χίλιοι which means "thousand"). "Kilo" is
often used as a shorthand for "kilogram", and the kilogram is the last SI base unit to be tied to a reference artifact (stored near Paris in
the Pavillon de Breteuil in Sèvres).


Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at InternetNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist

Sean Michael Kerner

Sean Michael Kerner is an Internet consultant, strategist, and writer for several leading IT business web sites.

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