What I know of cloud services and implementations is really limited. Mostly in
what I have had to be somewhat competent in making a opinion for work. 

Amazon has EC2 and storage via S3. This is for all I know a closed source system
probably utilizing some OSS components. 

There is Eucalyptus, and their API cloning of Amazons EC2 and such. But not all
of it is open sourced.

Then there is Openstack used by NASA and Rackspace due to each having issues 
with
Eucalyptus. Openstack is AFAIK the only fully open source cloud offering. They
are even treating it like the LAMP stack such that you can substitute any piece
out and it should continue to work. Just as people move away from MySQL for
postgres or some other DB, and PHP/Perl/Ruby/Python/etc... as the language. The
Openstack people are building the tools such that each piece does it's job and
is not dependent on another specific part, but rather a service being offered. 

Anyone else have thoughts/opinions?

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Steven Critchfield [email protected]

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