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There are people moving towards an open source implementation of high scalability cloud services. For example, the OpenStack project at http://www.openstack.org

• cloudsigma 16y ago
  The API doesn't solve the real problem of vendor lock-in and the OpenStack API is basically the Rackspace API with all those restrictions. We posted regarding this previously at http://bit.ly/fSJZ79 http://bit.ly/fSJZ79 . It isn't fundamentally bad but it just reinforces the same restrictive model. It doesn't answer the fundamental points we raise regarding false constraints imposed by vendors such as yourselves (not specifically aimed against Rackspace) like: - bundling of resources - fixed instance sizes - software level control by the vendor - filesystem visibility by the vendor etc. We have taken a different approach. Our point is there are many approaches and implementations to IaaS and the current larger ones impose many restrictions on customers and are much more like traditional hosting type models on something that can be a lot more open and flexible. We are talking about the true sense of 'open'. Why not allow customers to have control of their operating systems, networking and server instance sizes? The underlying virtualisation platform supports it. That means the vendor is actually choosing to impose those restrictions on the customer in their software. We choose not to. Its just a different approach. Best wishes, Patrick CEO CloudSigma http://www.cloudsigma.com http://www.cloudsigma.com