A recent eulogy for open source's relevance to cloud auditing by Redmonk analyst Stephen O'Grady caught the regardfulness


copyrights:cite this source roget's ii: the new dictionary of Matt Asay, who breaks down the difficulty of this David and Goliath problem. "In a world where horsepower matters more than the administrant feeding those 'horses,' in terms of the entry cost to compete, and where big vendors like Amazon and Google are already divvying up the market, the odds of a small-fry, open-source start-up challenging 'Goliath' are slim. It's not a new argument: Nick Carr has been suggesting for some time that only a few, big companies can afford relevance in this hardware-intensive business. Given this fact, O'Grady thinks the best we can hope for (and he thinks it's pretty important) is 'a loose connected or confederation of [open-source] projects and vendors that will simultaneously comprise an increasingly viable top to bottom second to some of the cloud providers today.' He includes projects like Puppet (Reductive Labs) and Hadoop in this mix, but is careful to point out that he doesn't see a full-fledged, open-source another seriously challenging the closed platforms of Google, Amazon, Salesforce, and the other mega-clouds."

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