@Loverock Davidson quote: "...With Cloud Foundations, Red Hat is on the right track with cloud by accelerating interoperability and portability to prevent cloud lock in. "
Isn't that a good thing?
quote: "...The company also started a site, called APIwanted.org, where external parties can submit suggestions for additional APIs and other desired functionality for Deltacloud."
Give people what they want? That's absurd!
Quote: "In addition to Red Hat itself, other companies participating in the development of Deltacloud, or using it in some way, include Cisco, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Ingres and Intel, the company asserted.
Bah!... a bunch of looser nobodies! Maybe if a real company of any significance were to jump in this suggested standard could maybe see the light of day. But until then...
Really, though, there is a difference between 'cloud' and 'smoke.' MS has been blowing smoke for some time and doesn't appear to have settled on their own proprietary standards. More vaporware? You can't even be certain what you have bought from them already will be compatible with their 'cloud' in the end.
Red Hat is delivering the product now, and giving it away in the hope of a world of seamless interoperability. It seems they have already beaten MS, to the punch.
But as said in a post below FOSS will win this one. People will still use windows clients, if that's their choice... key word being "choice."
The model of the monolithic giant is over, think GM. Microsoft will remain profitable seemingly forever. But nobody is going to want to wade through their web of licensing schemes only to end up with a system that is not compatible with anyone else, but if you want any upgrades, add ons etc, you have no choice... you're locked into one vendor.
That is unless MS gets smart and adopts Red Hat's open standards, =)
"...only one vendor...?" where have I heard that before?
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