PaaS, Standards, and Open Source!

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Bernard Golden!Vice President Strategy, ActiveState Software 20+ years experience: •  Enterprise IT shops, •  Enterprise software •  Global consultancy •  Venture capital Cloud Computing Advisor, CIO Magazine

Weekly blog read by 50K+ people throughout world Named a “Top Ten Influential Person in Cloud Computing” by Wired.com “AWS for Dummies” named one of top 5 cloud computing books

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A Typical Standards Meeting!

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Standards!

•  Enable  interoperability  

•  Appropriate  in  /me  of  low  innova/on  

•  Slow-­‐moving  by  design  

•  Enables  innova/on  in  complementary  layers/products  

•  Interoperability  commonly  hindered  by  vendor  interpreta/on  

•  O?en  dominated  by  a  single  vendor  w/  agenda  

•  Inadequate  in  face  of  disrup/on  

•  ABX  standards  tradi/onally  low  u/lity  

Benefits! Drawbacks!

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A Typical Open Source Meeting!

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Open Source!

•  Tradi/onally  commodi/zes  so?ware  segments  

•  Today  source  of  innova/on  

•  Enables  innova/on  in  complementary  layers/products  

•  Community  increases  product  value  

•  Can  be  very  fast-­‐moving  

•  Large  community  can  increase  adop/on,  but  also  fragmenta/on  

•  Increasingly  viewed  by  vendors  as  proxy  for  market  efforts  

•  Poor  governance  hinders  adop/on  

•  ABX  open  source  tradi/onally  low  u/lity  

Benefits! Drawbacks!

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PaaS Standards & Open Source!•  Pace  of  change:  too  early  for  standards,  right  /me  for  open  source  

•  Reliable  interface  contract  cri/cal  •  Enable  integra/on  with  popular  open  source  products  (e.g.,  Docker)  •  Enable  innova/on  and  avoid  fragmenta/on  

•  Develop  polyglot  reference  applica/ons  to  ensure  interoperability  •  Community  size  will  be  cri/cal  

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Thank you! Bernard Golden Vice President, Strategy @bernardgolden bernard.golden@activestate.com activestate.com/stackato | @activestate | #stackato | activestate.com/blog Stackato: The Movie -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_aKBJNovdU