The Free Cloud Alliance was launched today “to provide access to source code and native data and prevent vendor lock-in on cloud-based infrastructures”.

The founding projects are: NiftyName Virtual Datacenter (NVD), Block Storage Server (BS2), Xtreem Storage Server (XS2), NEO Storage Server (NS2), SLAP Cloud Engine (SCE) and TioLive OEM Platform (TOP).

Infoworld has the scoop.

More info in the Press Release.