I am very surprised about the amount of vendor tie in we are willing to accept with cloud providers. For many companies switching clouds would be a larger under

I am very surprised about the amount of vendor tie in we are willing to accept with cloud providers. For many companies switching clouds would be a larger undertaking than switching operating systems in the 90s and early 00s. Very few software projects started in that period have survived and are looked upon favorably internally. The parallels between cloud and OS are wide, as many basic functions that use to be done on host systems are commonly done in cloud. Database, message buses, application state, processing, application logging, file storage, cacheing, user authentication. In twenty to thirty years many of the cloud software being built today will still be running, and still be generating revenue but will feel stifled and limited in the same way working on a 25 year old Windows-only application would feel today. I'd love to see "a cloud in a box", or a collection of open source tools to provide a full range of cloud services powered by open source software that can be deployed on arbitrary VMs and sanely configured out of the box to interact with itself. This sort of grouped redistribution of preconfigured software paired with an installer could look to Linux distros as an example from the previous generation. This would remove vendor lock in, and insure any critical tools can be maintained by the companies that relay on them.