Open Cloud Manifesto

I'm a little late to the party on this one. Perils of having to actually work for a living. The open cloud manifesto over at

http://opencloudmanifesto.org/

has been getting a fair amount of coverage in the past week, primarily for the politics around the organisations that have not signed up to the manifesto and the way in which the manifesto was drawn up.

Looking at the list of supporting organisations and those that have chosen not to associate themselves with the process at this stage, there's a fairly clear (and fairly obvious) divide between those organisations that will be providing the kit supporting cloud computing (IBM, VMWare, Cisco etc) and those organisations that provide services over cloud infrastructures (Microsoft, Google, Amazon etc). Now, if I was being cynical I'd have to ask myself which organisations have the most to lose from open, interoperable clouds? The infrastructure players don't particularly care - the service providers will always need the tin. The service providers? Well, I daresay they don't necessarily see lock-in as all bad... but then, how can I be cynical when it's such a lovely sunny day with hardly a cloud in sight? :-)