A recent discussion on CloudForum pertains to the nature of what interoperable cloud computing platform might be. It’s been a real debate in the community for long time about what and inter operable cloud API actually looks like.  read more »

Here's an interesting problem. Through the dot com era (and slightly before), the hosting market was driven to ravenous acquisitions of companies based on the value of their customers. Companies were able to make acquisitions on the basis of their customer contracts - a fairly simple equation.

Cloud Computing is built on utility platforms. It doesn't actually have a lock-in on contracts. Your customer base is stuck with you only as long as nothing else better comes along, or the pain of moving outweighs other factors.  read more »

Ruven made a really great post about cloud interoperability today:  read more »