Online business Toolkit

Story: Sun exec: Future cloud apps will not need humans

• 
• 

Exactly

CA: "The risk here is that some of them may try to lock down parts of the open source community's working in these fields, for personal gains later on down the road."

I couldn't agree with this bit more. This is indeed a huge danger. In the same way that M$ have had an almost total strangle hold on the office document editor market, by means of their closed and infinitely mutating .doc "standard"; another company, God forbid maybe even M$ again, manages to shanghai the "Cloud Interoperability" protocol, whatever that turns out to be. Then we have another couple of decades of turgid progress while another few hundreds of billions worth of resource gets drained into yet another "richest man in the world"'s pocket.

• 
• 

• 
• 
• 

Full Talkback thread