Open Source & Open Cloud: Why License Is Important
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Open source software is important for cloud computing because it is the building block of cloud infrastructure and lowers barriers to entry for cloud service providers. While open standards and interfaces empower users, open licenses are still needed to regulate competition and prevent market consolidation, as open formats alone cannot control market dynamics that tend towards monopoly. For a competitive cloud market with self-regulation, open source drives competition between federated cloud providers and lowers costs through collaborative innovation.
Open Source & Open Cloud: Why License Is Important
- 1. Open Source & Open Cloud Why License Is Still Important?
- 2. 2 Open Source & Cloud Computing Open Source Is The Building Block Of Cloud Licensing Restrictions & Cloud Evolutions. AWS w/o OSS? Open Source = Innovation
- 3. 3 Open Source Is Not Important • Architecture is important and license doesn’t matter • Open Cloud Initiative Open Cloud => Open Formats + Open Interfaces At least one implementation is open source
- 4. 4 My POV: OSS Is Important
- 5. 5 Limitations Of Open Standards Open Formats and Open Interfaces will empower the users but it cannot regulate the market dynamics Market has a natural tendency towards Monopoly Handful of cloud providers
- 6. 6 Net Result
- 7. 7 Competition Is Key If you don’t want regulations, market should self police Competition is key for self regulation Federated Cloud EcoSystem (FCES) Drives Competition
- 8. 8 Role of Open Source Open Source lowers barrier to entry for service providers Open Source Wisdom aka Economics of Abundance in play OpenStack, CloudStack, Eucalyptus, etc. CloudFoundry, OpenShift, etc.
- 9. 9 My Coordinates Work: Principal Analyst, Rishidot Research and Editor, CloudAve.com Email: krishnan@krishworld.com Twitter: @krishnan Website: www.rishidot.com Blog: www.cloudave.com/author/krishnan /