Cloud computing and open source face-off

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RE: Cloud computing and open source face-off

The cloud computing industry is ALREADY using open source as a leverage for proprietary frameworks. Our industry is under transition from a product to a service based economy, however your argument implies that we will never get beyond the "my product as a service" stage to true service competition based upon standard outputs and portability between providers.

The problem with this idea is that the lack of second sourcing options will remain a major obstacle to adoption. We've not only seen the consequences of this with CogHead and Virtual Iron, anyone over 40 remembers how dependent business became upon vendors.

These concerns will help drive us towards standards based upon open source reference models because in a service world the bits won't matter, the service will. We're already seeing this effect with Eucalyptus / Globus Nimbus and others creating open source implementations of EC2 and consolidation around EC2 as the defacto standard.

Ubuntu Enterprise Clouds (UEC) is not a "cloud-enabled service" it's a system that enables a user to create their own private cloud with matches the emerging standard of the Amazon EC2 API. UEC is not about being a provider.

"don?t create an ecosystem that create intrinsic economic or technical benefits in a situated setting" - by such logic neither should have Apache or HTTP. There is world of difference between service providers, reference models and standards.

Good post Dion, not sure I'd agree with your logic but interesting.

Posted by: swardley@...   Posted on: 06/22/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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