With the popularity of cloud computing quickly rising there is a real need to ensure that the cloud is open and not a proprietary lock-in. The Open Cloud Manifesto has been launched to try and ensure that this is the case and Symbian has become an official supporter.
Symbian is an organisation that is passionate about being open – the planning for our releases, the decision making processes (including the councils) and all our code are out in the open. As such we totally support the Open Cloud Manifesto which is working to ensure that different cloud offerings can work together and that there are open standards.
Inside Symbian we use the cloud thanks to a wide range of providers – over twenty in fact – and we don’t even run our own file or email servers! Symbian Ideas, Symbian Horizon and this blog run on cloud infrastructure, and we have plans to shift nearly all our sites onto the cloud in the next few months.
If you want to learn more about the Open Cloud Manifesto, go over and have a look at their website at www.opencloudmanifesto.org, and we encourage you to support it too.
