I suppose this part is what I mean wrt whirr:

For clouds that does not provide a specific application service on their
> platform, we would work with Apache sibling projects such as Hadoop, CouchDB
> and Cassandra for data store, or ActiveMQ and Qpid for queueing for example,
> to close the gap.
>

whirr would seem to be an ideal way for them to achieve this, right?  I've
also reached out, too.

-Adrian

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Tom White <[email protected]> wrote:

> Adrian,
>
> Thanks for the pointer. It looks like Nuvem is focusing on defining
> common service APIs (e.g. a key-value store API), with a variety of
> underlying implementations. Whirr is focusing on running services
> (like Hadoop, ZooKeeper) on variety of cloud providers; it doesn't aim
> to provide common APIs for these services. But you're right that there
> may be some overlap. Worth reaching out, I suspect.
>
> Cheers,
> Tom
>
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Adrian Cole <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Except the fact that we don't expose existing service apis, there seems
> to be a high overlap. Perhaps they didn't know about whirr, yet?
> >
> > -Adrian
> >
> > http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/Nuvem
>

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