Ubuntu promises DIY Amazon cloud

[Pete Zaitcev]

On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:11:49 -0400, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sounds interesting:
> http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=117904

That's just the EC2, and AWS includes several other interesting components
that make sense for internal, behind-firewall clouds, most especially S3.
Free reimplementations exist for that, such as Apache Hadoop. So the
Ubuntu thing is only a small part of the cloud story, and it looks to
me that it works in the area that's already well covered by libvirt et. al.

Another thing, cloud apps do not have to limit themselves to AWS
(or a sum of EC2, S3, and messaging). I'm working on a class project
to run a Googlesque Map/Reduce on MPI clusters, for instance.

In short, stop aping Ubuntu people, it's not the end of everything.
I expect more from Fedora.

-- Pete