API Compatibility War Validates Abstraction Approach to Cloud Computing
August 4, 2014
Grazed from DataCenterKnowledge. Author: Pete Johnson.
As you may know, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that Oracle can copyright the Java API and Google violated that copyright by creating software that is API compatible. This has huge impact across the entire software world, but in particular with cloud computing where the APIs are used to provision resources on demand.
This development sheds light on the desire for users to avoid lock-in and have the ability to more freely move applications between clouds, which can be done more easily with API compatibility. But it also sheds light on the alternative of an abstraction approach that frees cloud vendors to innovate beyond borders imposed by API compatibility while giving users the portability they seek…
API compatibility has been a hot topic in cloud computing for quite some time. In fact, last summer Cloudscaling CEO Randy Bias and Rackspace Evangelist Robert Scoble had a very heated and public debate around whether or not it was in OpenStack’s best interest to provide full AWS API compatibility…
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