In an emerging market, there are many entrants, offering their own solution. Same with the cloud. Each of the offering today for cloud computing are designed specific to the vendor’s way of doing business and as the result, forcing lock-in for the users.
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Product |
Target Customers |
Offering |
Today’s Lock-in? |
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US?, Startups |
XEN based virtualized Linux, some Windows |
Images reside in S3, cost $ to move
|
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|
US?, Developers |
Python based web application running on Google infrastructure
|
Programming model tied to BigTable |
|
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WW, startups, SMB, education, governments
|
Linux + web in IBM data centers |
Relationship with IBM |
|
|
WW, Developers |
.NET based applications running on Microsoft infrastructure
|
Programming model tied to .NET and Visual Studio |
|
|
US?, Developers |
Applications built on top of salesforce.com & APIs, running on salesforce.com infrastructure
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Programming model based on Salesforce.com APIs |
Copyright (c) 2008 by Waiming Mok
