[ Thanks to Amy
Bennett for this link. ]
“That’s the situation between OpenStack and Canonical, after
Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth posted a public entreaty for
OpenStack to keep the cloud computing project’s APIs based on the
de facto standards of Amazon Web Services (AWS), rather than
OpenStack trying to differentiate itself by putting together its
own API secret sauce.“The blog entry uses a powerful historical example to get the
point across: the development of the Hypertext Transport Protocol
(HTTP) as the true standard for web communication. Just as HTTP has
become the only standard for the web, so too will AWS APIs and
specifications become the standard for cloud computing development,
Shuttleworth argues. Because of this, he adds, there is no reason
to make the API the big differentiator for cloud services.”