personally I don't and I think AMI is the gateway drug to defacto lockin On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Matthew Brett <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi, > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Nicholas Roberts > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I actually think its not cheap, its a trade-off between convenience and > cost > > and Amazon are very smart about choosing their product / service > placements > > > > in other words, there is still lots of hosting outside of Amazon i.e. > > Rackspace, Linode ... all the way down to micro hoster resellers > > > > Ubuntu for instance is doing a lot to make private and hybrid cloud > > infrastructure super easy to use and once you've got the machines > (including > > commodity boxes) and a windmill you're TCO approaches zero > > Do you think the variety of providers is enough to ensure we don't get > locked in? Do you see it as a large risk if Amazon becomes the > de-facto supplier of scientific computing cycles and data hosting? > > Best, > > Matthew > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss >
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