The potential impact on the ability of users, developers and IT departments to consume cloud services via a common set of tools is, according to Brian Stevens, Red Hat’s CTO, “epic. Plenty of arguments are made against the concept, like “It was done in the ’60s with a different name and we’ve moved on,” or “It’s just the ASP model all over again, ” or “It’s not secure. Anyone relying on Google’s cloud-based email solution was left stranded and unable to do anything about the lack of service, totally reliant on Google engineers to identify the problem and get it sorted sharpish. And that’s going to present a wagon load of opportunities and threats for anyone who makes enterprise operating systems, of both the server and desktop variety.

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