[ Cloud Computing ] Re: cloud and user experience

John, I agree.  I find it hard to see the drivers right now for standardization.  This is still an evolving/emerging approach – both technology and commercial – and so I expect to see lots of models tried.  As these mature, the drivers for the providers to provide standardization (and hence more commoditization) will become clearer.

 

Rick

 

From: cloud-computing@googlegroups.com [mailto:cloud-computing@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Brothers
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Subject: [ Cloud Computing ] Re: cloud and user experience

 

Sorry, I don't see any sort of forcing.  I see Google, Sun, HP, IBM, Microsoft,  Amazon, Oracle and SAP (at least) all working hard to create proprietary platforms that do certain things well, and other things poorly.   I see people building apps to work with one, and having a terrible time integrating with each other.  I see businesses springing up that capitalize on this, and acting as integrators, and providing just enough connectivity that the "big guys" are able to delay standardization for a long time - 5 to 10 to 15 years.

And I don't see any sort of rapid consolidation, interoperability and standardization of Cloud infrastructure.  I'm not even sure what you're talking about.  Can you elaborate? 

Let me make myself clear - yes, interop and standardization would be good things for end users.   Doesn't mean they're going to happen, and a lot of people have a strong vested interest in not letting that happen so their businesses don't become commoditized.
 

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Collins, Jeff <Jeff_Collins@intuit.com> wrote:

But I agree that interoperability will be forced very quickly toward some kind of interop standard.  I also agree that the most widely adopted early protocols will probably just become standard (e.g. OFX).  Identity, authorization, and other standards will quickly become very high priority. 

We're seeing the incredibly rapid consolidation, interoperability and standardization of Cloud infrastructure, and I think it will rapidly drive different behavior of applications one level above it in the Cloud.  The end user will benefit because the applications they use will essentially be designed from the start to work together well based on being Componentized from the start as said below.

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