[I have talked about Jelastic in my Java&Cloud presentations for a long time. Their multi-datacenter, multi-partners, Java-standard based business model intrigued me from the start. Because of that, Jelastic invited me to write for their “ Most Interesting Developer in the World ” series. The post bellow was first published in Jelastic’s blog some months ago. Since then, I got a chance to do a lot of work with their team, and met many of them in person. I’ve learned that not only they have a great business,
I don’t remember who said it, but I once heard that “Cloud Computing is economically inevitable”. This may sound like an over-enthusiastic claim made by cloud vendors eager for our business. But, the more I think about it, the more it looks like a true statement. It is also a scary one! Cloud Computing is a powerful idea. Vendors created impressive infrastructures that already have huge, positive impact on developers and companies. But, it also concentrates computing power in the hands of a small number of
It is not an accident that vendor lock-in ranks high among the concerns when considering Cloud Computing. If Cloud Computing is indeed economically inevitable, the only way that we can have a healthy system is with strong and widespread competition. And for that, we need to be able to choose, and then, some time later, we need to be free to choose again . That is why our choices for application development need to reduce vendor lock-in from the start.
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