CAMP: Will It Be Relevant?
Last week at CloudOpen 2012, a group of vendors in the platforms space announced a new set of specifications to help simplify management of applications in the public and private clouds. Called CAMP, these specifications are submitted to OASIS to develop it as an industry standard. The initial reaction from the industry and some cloud [...]
Open Cloud Initiative Is Dead Long Live OCI
First let me make it clear that Open Cloud Initiative (OCI) is not dead and it is going to stay for a long time advocating openness. Also, I will fight all I can to keep it going. Having said that I am writing this post to re-emphasize something which I have been saying all along. [...]
OSCON Week: Open Cloud Initiative Launched To Drive Open Standards In Cloud Computing
This is OSCON Week here at Portland, Oregon and it is time for some interesting news involving openness and cloud computing. Last year it was OpenStack and this year, even though the impact factor is not similar, it is Open Cloud Initiative (OCI). Open Cloud Initiative is a non-profit organization put together by a bunch of well known individuals who advocate openness [...]
BBC Thinks HTML5 Is Not Yet Ready For Primetime
There is some hope among the people who want open standards on the web that HTML5 is going to be their savior. In fact, web is built entirely on top of open protocols and technology and HTML 5 is the natural next step to keep web open to all. Particularly, people saw the use of [...]
Open Philosophy: Innovating Around Roadblocks
I have been advocating mobile apps over native apps in this space. In my opinion, mobile apps based on open standards help us overcome the restrictions thrown on our way with proprietary vendors wanting to influence control over their customers. Even though these restrictions are anti-competitive and, in some cases, goes against the very essence of [...]
No Vendor Lock In – Mantra for Cloud’s Success
Image via Wikipedia Tim Bray, while discussing about the advantages of moving to the clouds during these tough economic times, was talking about the vendor lock-in being the biggest obstacle in the path towards the success of cloud computing paradigm When times are tough, money is tight. Which means, you’d think, that the golden era [...]
