Rackspace exec warns of Amazon lock-in

Copying the APIs of a cloud service isn’t sufficient to avoid lock-in, a vendor of a competing cloud service argues

As cloud computing matures, “people will want to invent and build new features, ones that they then can run anywhere. I think if we just wait around for Amazon to build things, we will have a hard time as an industry,” said Lew Moorman, president of hosted service provider Rackspace. “It’s not even a criticism of Amazon. What I’m asking for is an open alternative.”

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