[Discuss] Amusing turn of phrase

[Colin Walters]

On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 01:22 -0400, David Kramer wrote:

> The original concept touted as "cloud computing" (the concept wasn't
> new, just the name) was there would be ubiquitous, commoditized services
> that would run data processing jobs on a scalable number of cores/boxes,
> and if the vendor pissed you off or changed policies, you take your work
> elsewhere.  As far as I know, no standard has ever developed, so there's
> a lot of work involved in leaving one cloud computing service and going
> to another.  It's just another vendor lock-in opportunity where the
> means of your production are completely out of your control.

Red Hat has put some resources into this for the compute (EC2) APIs:

http://deltacloud.apache.org/

(Disclaimer: Haven't tried it personally)