3月31日
The Cloud Manifesto and it’s dark origin
There’s some buzz going on over the Web about the so called “Could Manifesto” (
http://opencloudmanifesto.org/). It’s supposedly a technical manifesto asking for companies providing “could” hosting to be open, interoperable, nice and good-smelling. Their motto is “dedicated to the belief that the cloud should be open”.
At first one would think this is just the usual naïve, hippie, Richard Stallmanesque wishful thinking.
Yeaa, right. We have at least three companies (Microsoft, Google, Amazon) spending billions of dollars to set up cloud infrastructure, both hardware and software. Cloud hosting is a challenging environment, one for which the current software and hardware infrastructure is unable to meet for several technical reasons. That’s why those companies are investing on it.
Or, according to the Manifesto these companies are supposed to do one of the following:
- Not leverage their hard-earned Intellectual Property and donate it to Mankind so other companies that didn’t spend anything developing cloud services can profit from it;
- Use old infrastructure, the same one that put us in the situation of needing could services, that is, infrastructure that would not work in the cloud.
Both are business suicides.
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