Re: Eucaliptus

here's a comment from http://www.eei.org/industry_issues/industry_overview_and_statistics/history/index.htm#structure
"Early electric companies were somewhat inefficient and redundant in
the services they provided. Separate companies provided electricity
for different needs such as street illumination, industrial power,
residential lighting, and street car service. They frequently operated
under nonexclusive franchises, often in competition with one another.
Companies used different equipment, voltages, and frequencies, so
their systems were not compatible."

Now, does this sound familiar?
"Early leaders recognized that electric companies suffered from high
fixed costs as a result of the heavy investment needed to finance
central generating plants and distribution systems. At the same time,
their operating-or variable-costs were relatively low. Insull
understood that with more customers on a system, more revenue was
generated, spreading out fixed costs. He reduced prices and
aggressively marketed to attract more customers. Many companies gave
away light bulbs and electric irons to encourage electricity use. The
difficulty was in establishing an appropriate price for electricity."

IMHO, standardization is inevitable and open source is one way to
drive defacto standards. However, there are many services needed to
build upon (e.g. S3, EC2 (many features included), SQS, etc.). To
standardize we need to really exercise the primitives to identify the
primitives which are needed. IMHO, trying to standardize too soon
will stifle the process. As low level primitives become
"standardized" we can move up the stack to higher order services like
AppEngine, bungee, and on. So to really solidify the lowest level
primitives we need to exercise them for all sorts of purposes
including higher level cloud services.

thoughts?
Tross

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