Hi, On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Nicholas Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > personally I don't and I think AMI is the gateway drug to defacto lockin
Sorry you mean you don't think the variety of providers is enough to prevent lockin or you don't think that that this would be a large problem? If you do think it would be a large problem, what do you think we in the open knowledge community should do about it? Best, Matthew > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
