Comments on: RH to host in EC2- does it blend?^W^W^Wis it open? http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/11/08/rh-to-host-in-ec2-does-it-blendwwwis-it-open/ Ramblings on law school in New York, free software, and the spaces in between. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:08:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Luis http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/11/08/rh-to-host-in-ec2-does-it-blendwwwis-it-open/#comment-25456 Luis Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:07:08 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/11/08/rh-to-host-in-ec2-does-it-blendwwwis-it-open/#comment-25456 Yeah, I meant the EC2 source. Frank, I agree completely, actually. By asking the question, I meant to suggest that it is very plausible that open sourcing every line necessary to clone EC2 would not have any negative impact on Amazon. Yeah, I meant the EC2 source.

Frank, I agree completely, actually. By asking the question, I meant to suggest that it is very plausible that open sourcing every line necessary to clone EC2 would not have any negative impact on Amazon.

]]> By: Frank Hecker http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/11/08/rh-to-host-in-ec2-does-it-blendwwwis-it-open/#comment-25450 Frank Hecker Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:14:15 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/11/08/rh-to-host-in-ec2-does-it-blendwwwis-it-open/#comment-25450 "Obvious question: are Amazon’s services so complex, their hardware so expensive, and their skill so deep, that they could maintain competitive advantage without proprietary source code?" As Matt Sayler asked, source code for what? In any case, don't underestimate the competitive advantage that can accrue from deep expertise in how to manage extremely large data center installations with high reliability and low cost. Only part of that expertise is likely to be embodied in code, and the code in question is not necessarily code that directly touches users (for example, code for server monitoring, provisioning, etc.). “Obvious question: are Amazon’s services so complex, their hardware so expensive, and their skill so deep, that they could maintain competitive advantage without proprietary source code?” As Matt Sayler asked, source code for what? In any case, don’t underestimate the competitive advantage that can accrue from deep expertise in how to manage extremely large data center installations with high reliability and low cost. Only part of that expertise is likely to be embodied in code, and the code in question is not necessarily code that directly touches users (for example, code for server monitoring, provisioning, etc.).

]]> By: Linux Today - RH to Host in EC2--Does it Blend?^W^W^W Is It Open? http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/11/08/rh-to-host-in-ec2-does-it-blendwwwis-it-open/#comment-25448 Linux Today - RH to Host in EC2--Does it Blend?^W^W^W Is It Open? Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:10:02 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/11/08/rh-to-host-in-ec2-does-it-blendwwwis-it-open/#comment-25448 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] RH to Host in EC2--Does it Blend?^W^W^W Is It Open? Destroy All Androids! Who Wants to Kill the OLPC Project? Covering the Reiser Trial Sun's Growth Problem May Be Open Source, Says a Former Sun Executive Squashfs Aiming For Mainline Kernel Linux Backups For Real People, Part 2 Recruiting Software Talent Dell To Ship PCs With SLED 10 Linux In China What's Up at the OpenDocument Foundation? :RH to Host in EC2--Does it Blend?^W^W^W Is It Open? RH to Host in EC2--Does it Blend?^W^W^W Is It Open?Nov 9, 2007, 01 :00 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (21 reads)(Other stories by Luis Villa) "So Red Hat is going to sell hosted servers in EC2. With my recent focus, this prompts an obvious question. "Given that EC2 is basically hosted Xen (a defacto open standard), so that you can apparently fairly trivially move a VM from your machine to EC2 to some other Xen-running server, and that you can apparently access (both upload and download) your VMs trivially via a robust API, does that make EC2 an open service...?" Complete Story [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> Kramer auto Pingback[...] RH to Host in EC2–Does it Blend?^W^W^W Is It Open? Destroy All Androids! Who Wants to Kill the OLPC Project? Covering the Reiser Trial Sun's Growth Problem May Be Open Source, Says a Former Sun Executive Squashfs Aiming For Mainline Kernel Linux Backups For Real People, Part 2 Recruiting Software Talent Dell To Ship PCs With SLED 10 Linux In China What's Up at the OpenDocument Foundation? :RH to Host in EC2–Does it Blend?^W^W^W Is It Open? RH to Host in EC2–Does it Blend?^W^W^W Is It Open?Nov 9, 2007, 01 :00 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (21 reads)(Other stories by Luis Villa) “So Red Hat is going to sell hosted servers in EC2. With my recent focus, this prompts an obvious question. “Given that EC2 is basically hosted Xen (a defacto open standard), so that you can apparently fairly trivially move a VM from your machine to EC2 to some other Xen-running server, and that you can apparently access (both upload and download) your VMs trivially via a robust API, does that make EC2 an open service…?” Complete Story [...]

]]> By: Matt Sayler http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/11/08/rh-to-host-in-ec2-does-it-blendwwwis-it-open/#comment-25439 Matt Sayler Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:28:06 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/11/08/rh-to-host-in-ec2-does-it-blendwwwis-it-open/#comment-25439 "obviously, source is not available. Not clear it would be of any use to mere mortals anyway, and we do have the Xen source. Still, not satisfactory to everyone. Obvious question: are Amazon’s services so complex, their hardware so expensive, and their skill so deep, that they could maintain competitive advantage without proprietary source code?" Are you referring to the "EC2" source? “obviously, source is not available. Not clear it would be of any use to mere mortals anyway, and we do have the Xen source. Still, not satisfactory to everyone. Obvious question: are Amazon’s services so complex, their hardware so expensive, and their skill so deep, that they could maintain competitive advantage without proprietary source code?”

Are you referring to the “EC2″ source?

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