Today Sun announced that they are going to launch a kind of Amazon Web Services competitor.
I am not going to get into the details here. If you want you can go to their announcement website and try to figure out what it is. Good luck with that.
My impression is this. It is an announcement of a bunch of gobbledygook. No specifics. No prices. No APIs. Nothing but some broad crap about how they want to make interoperable clouds. Pages and pages of pure abstract nothingness on their website. I am not sure what the announcement is. I am not sure what I am to do with this information other than sign up for more information when they are ready to share it. I can't figure out how this compares to the offerings of the Amazon 800 pound gorilla.
What a horrific way to launch. I can't imagine such foggy thinking leading to a competitive success against Amazon.
Today it was also announced that IBM is trying to buy Sun. I hope for Sun shareholders they succeed. The stench of fail is heavy with Sun. Or perhaps that is just what decomposition smells like.
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Sun's APIs can be reviewed and commented on at http://kenai.com/projects/suncloudapis
Russ,
Thanks for the link. Are you purposely hiding this information by not linking to it from the sun promotional website or did I just entirely miss it? Is there some reason that it is being hosted under the kenai domain and not under sun's domain? Regardless, you guys have made it exceedingly hard to find this stuff. Very strange.
Do a little reading next time:
http://kenai.com/projects/suncloudapis/pages/HelloCloud
Great article. Also please check out my article on how the market is pricing the IBM/Sun news: http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2009/03/what-does-the-market-think/
Read: Vaporware.
"Oh yeah, we gotta do it too."
Just the fact that Java updates try to install Yahoo Toolbar shows how far they have fallen.
Either someone at Sun is stupid, or someone at Sun hates their customers. I actually sent a note to their PR department asking them if they had any idea how badly that looks -- no reply, of course.
I started using Suns back in 1985, and was very pleased with them for years. Pity about them now....
Oh yeah, and I don't get Twine either. I mean, not even a little bit, it's a complete mystery to me why I should care about it.
As Second Life is to online gaming, so it seems* Twine is to the Semantic Web -- a vast quantity of journalistic noise generated about nothing much at all.
*(unless we're both dumb)
I'm with Hank on this one, at least as far as the difficulty with understanding that web page goes. To castronovoruss's point, yes, there is a link on that page to the API docs, but note the text used for that link: "Open Communities." Hmmm... so while it's great that Sun wants to develop the APIs out in the open, this sort of labeling makes it harder to find things.
But the biggest disappointment on that page is the "Use the Cloud" link. I clicked it, hoping to get to, ya' know, actually *use* the cloud. Alas, it appears that is not available yet - there's just a form to sign up for the beta test. Bummer.
You might find this video interesting too:
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/03/19/cloudy-sun-virtual-data-center-demo/
LOL brutal, but spot on! BTW, where have you been?
Maybe it's an exploratory launch. They'll see what kind of features people request, and then they'll incorporate them, etc.
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