George Reese interviewed at OSCON 2010
summary
Argues that cloud lock‑in shows up as loss of access during provider failure and as operational drift when a provider changes features, with backups and disaster recovery explicitly the customer’s responsibility; cites Amazon APIs as published but IP‑ambiguous, vcloud as formally published, and the Space API as truly open; says open APIs enable data portability and provisioning but open source alone doesn’t; says noncritical tiers like marketing and sales already move to cloud and predicts financial data will follow.
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