Comments on: Open Cloud Manifesto now signed and delivered

Leaked late last week, the Open Cloud Manifesto has been a highly controversial document among cloud industry participants. The document and its signatory list are now officially public.

[Reader11]

Way to go Amazon EC2 and Microsoft, if this list would have been capable of deliering a cloud the would not have sign this losers agreement either.

[nasserd]

Funny thing is... IBM, Sun, AT&T, and Cisco Systems "sign" every other manifesto placed in front of them. EVERY SINGLE ONE!

At least Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have the decency to not sign docs they don't necessarily agree with just because their neighbor does.

[psm0110]

Pity party is over - now do something. And by that I don't mean rename your IBM mainframes "Enterprise Could Server" on your next sales call.

[Renegade Knight]

Right Idea. Now lets see the implementation. I look forward to not losing my data to propriatary formats. May anyone who doesn't play ball have their assattest purchased at a fire sale.

[Mr. Dee]

Another failure in the works.

[Ice Moose]

Ah, "what I tell you three times is true..."
After IBM signed the manifesto three times (once as themselves, and also as SUN and Eclipse), it must be unilaterally regarded as divine!

And of course they will build their cloud with a singular goal in mind of how not to lock poor customers in. Gee, that would be a change from their typical "a 100% IBM stack" approach.

[gggg sssss]

outside of IBM, and maybe cisco and sap, that list of losers has deliverded nothing of value. EVER. They might have included enron, yahoo, webvan, and arthur anderson to get better cross section of the clueless

[anthony f wood]

As this "Manifesto" has been signed, and now the discussions are beginning to get a little life in them it is interesting to note that even in population centres the current hardware in use is still letting us down.
A lot of businesses & homes are using equipment that is over 3 years old ( just walk around at office buildings etc and you will understand what I mean) and some is ancient technologically speaking, only last week I saw a system in an automotive parts department running Win2k with the filthiest case I've seen in a long time.
Now with cloud computing we will need fast protocols and fast lines of communication, be it wireless, DSL broadband, satellite or whatever our smart people come up with next. IPv6 will certainly go a long way with providing a better set of protocols, there is also a lot of new hardware starting to be developed.

Computing and business are undergoing major changes and it really is anyone's guess as to how these changes will go. The business world is a vastly different place today from 1988 and it is nothing like we expected it to be. These changes need to be made across larger areas (not demographics but geographically) so that the "cloud" can be used by more people. To my way of thinking this is simply the next logical step of usage of the global WAN.
I hope all these companies pitch in together instead of fighting about it and make this work really well, that would be nice.