[Infowarrior] - Open Cloud Manifesto now signed and delivered

[Richard Forno]

Open Cloud Manifesto now signed and delivered
by James Urquhart

http://news.cnet.com/8301-19413_3-10206843-240.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

As widely discussed since Wednesday night's leak of its existence, the  
Open Cloud Manifesto--originally authored by IBM--has been released  
for public consumption.

This had been a difficult weekend for the document, first outed by  
Microsoft's Steven Martin and then leaked in its entirety by my  
Overcast co-host, Geva Perry, the next day.

The discussion of the document has been muted, in part because the  
document is not a standards declaration or contract attached to any  
action or entity. Instead, it serves as a simple statement of  
principles that almost any cloud participant would agree with--at  
least publicly. However, the process in which it was brought into  
existence has been debated ferociously and may signify a changing of  
the guard in the standards world.

What is perhaps more interesting, however, is the list of signatories  
to the document. The list below is official as of Monday morning,  
according to my contact at IBM:

IBM
Sun Microsystems
VMWare
AT&T
Telefonica
Cisco Systems
EMC
SAP
Advanced Micro Devices
Elastra
rPath
Juniper Networks
Red Hat
Hyperic
Akamai
Novell
Sogeti
Rackspace
RightScale
GoGrid
Aptana
CastIron
EngineYard
Eclipse
SOASTA
F5
LongJump
NC State
Enomaly
Nirvanix
OMG
Computer Science Corp.
Boomi
Reservoir
Appistry
Heroku

Note that the "big four" of cloud computing, Amazon.com, Microsoft,  
Google and Salesforce.com, are not signatories. However, several major  
players are on it, including my employer, Cisco--as well as EMC, Sun,  
VMware, and a host of key start-ups and established vendors throughout  
the industry.

There is a Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum meeting scheduled to  
be held Monday night in conjunction with Cloud Expo in New York City  
in which many, if not all of the signatories, and several that refused  
to sign (including Microsoft) will gather to talk about the future of  
cloud standards.

This could either be a historic meeting--or the final nail in the  
Manifestogate coffin.

The document itself is available on Scribd, or as a PDF from the  
official Opencloudmanifesto.org site or Perry's Thinking Out Cloud blog.