Shuttleworth: Amazon will win cloud battle
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Shuttleworth told delegates at a BT open-source event on Monday that to emerge as a leader among the alternatives now on offer, a cloud platform must have open-source implementations. He gave the example of the Eucalyptus implementation of EC2, which the Canonical-sponsored Ubuntu Linux distribution has adopted for private and public cloud use.
"The winner will be either explicitly Amazon EC2 or, if [other players] get into gear, an IETF standard closely modelled on EC2," he said, referring to the Internet Engineering Task Force standards-setting body.
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allow EC2 to become a standard.
service. There is already an open source solution
(Eucalyptus).
Amazon will have to compete on the merits. That
said, we need to hold Amazon's feet to the fire
early on, and make sure everything is freely re-
implementable by third parties with no license
necessary.
implementable by third parties with no license
necessary."
You're not really serious are you? Do you think Amazon is going to give away something they have spent a ton of money to develop? Not likely.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/05/amazon_bitbucket_outage/
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