Hey You, Standardize My Cloud

"'What if there were a way to write and run enterprise applications that you could move from cloud to cloud?'--Alistair Croll, GigaOm

"I'm confident we'll have the answer to this question. Probably soon.

"Not because--or at least not strictly because--customers will demand it, though they will. Are, in fact. Rather it will arrive because it'll be the means of differentiation for late market entrants; those that want to play in the cloud with the likes of Amazon and Google, though at a fraction of the scale..."

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