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It's not a threat to openness, it's a threat to portability. It's not quite the same thing. You can be open without being portable and vice versa.
by GiraffeNecktie 17y ago
It's not a threat to openness, it's a threat to portability. It's not quite the same thing. You can be open without being portable and vice versa.
- ckinnan 17y agoYeah, the article includes SaaS as cloud computing. The SaaS portability problem has been around for years. Cloud computing as I think of it-- AWS, Mosso, etc-- is generally built on familiar and open technologies. If anything it is easier than ever to redeploy an application with a different cloud provider...and vendors like CloudKick and RightScale make switching trivial.