On Apr 28, 2011, at 1:23 PM, Stephen Russell wrote:

> Most people on this list woudl freak out at cloud costs. Remember

> Compuserve back in the day when you paid by the byte? Welcome to the

> cloud where you pay by the gig.

Yeah, and remember when other services sprang up and forced costs down?

One of the goals of OpenStack is to make the cloud a commodity. Everyone has access to the same infrastructure code, so you won't get into that "sole supplier" situation like you describe.

-- Ed Leafe

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