Open discussion on Interoperability / Portability for Cloud Computing

[drus...@ca.ibm.com]

The Cloud Computing Use Cases White Paper V2 (http://bit.ly/vB2es )
has started a discussion on Interoperability and Portability within
the Cloud.

Portability was described as the ability to take code that works with
one cloud provider and modify that code to work with another cloud
provider. Obviously the goal is zero changes.

Interoperability as the ability to write one piece of code that works
with multiple cloud providers.

Both of these are requirements for developers, and both of them are
consequences of standard APIs that are supported by multiple cloud
providers.

To understand more about the different approaches to portability /
interoperability within the Cloud, join the discussion at http://bit.ly/vB2es.

[OPaaS]

Open Platform as a Service (OPaaS) http://www.openplatformasaservice.com
addresses interoperability and portability by allowing developers to
connect to any cloud/application/service accessible via standard http
directly and any other protocol or method indirectly and create
whatever import/export capabilities they want into their "Open
Applications." Clouds, applications and code are everywhere - Open
Platform as a Service sits on top of it all and makes it work together
seamlessly. It is not a walled-garded with a single or proprietary
programming language. In fact, the entire Open Platform as a Service
is distributed over standard open protocols. If you can imagine it,
you can build it on OPaaS.