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- Excellent points, so here's what might happen...
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I think the picture you paint is likely to happen in fact, though it'll probably take a while to happen. And it'll probably take a few widely covered unfortunate incidents between customers and cloud suppliers.
With cloud computing already bumping up against many a government and industry regulation today (particularly in the EU), the whole cloud computing model is really a recipe for government oversight, like it or not.
If cloud computing takes off, and it looks like it will (especially if the economics continue to be borne out and are indeed passed along to the customer), it will likely lead to industry regulation -- including requiring the support of open standards to support easy switching between providers, which will hopefully be as straightforward as the phone number portability we got a few years ago, but unlikely.
All of this leads to the reason I wrote this; if the open source world doesn't figure out a path to providing cloud computing's full set of advantages to its users, it will just become a 2nd tier source for computing and we may end up with exactly the scenario you describe: highly regulated cloud computing providers and captive customers who are unhappy with them.
Best,
Dion Hinchcliffe - Posted by: dionhinchcliffe Posted on: 06/15/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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