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Article: Clash of the clouds; Computing.(A familiar-sounding spat breaks out)(cloud computing)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- April 4, 2009
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A familiar-sounding industry spat breaks out over standards
CLOUD computing may be the next big thing, but its politics are as old as the mainframe. Geeks from the early years of the information-technology (IT) industry would have had no difficulty deconstructing a quarrel that has broken out among IT's modern giants. At issue is an "Open Cloud Manifesto", which was published on March 30th.
Even before that date, accusations were flying around online. What caused the controversy was not so much the content, which is vague enough for almost everyone to agree with it. The "manifesto" essentially calls for computing firms not to fall back on bad old habits ...