The Cloud Computing Manifesto is a manifesto containing a "public declaration of principles and intentions" for cloud computing providers and vendors, [1] annotated as "a call to action for the worldwide cloud community" and "dedicated belief that the cloud should be open". [2] It follows the earlier development of the Cloud Computing Bill of Rights which addresses similar issues from the users' point of view. [3]
The document was developed "by way of an open community consensus process" [1] in response to a request by Microsoft that "any 'manifesto' should be created, from its inception, through an open mechanism like a Wiki, for public debate and comment, all available through a Creative Commons license". [4] Accordingly, it is hosted on a MediaWiki wiki and licensed under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license. [1]
The original, controversial version of the document called the Open Cloud Manifesto was sharply criticised by Microsoft who "spoke out vehemently against it" [5] for being developed in secret by a "shadowy group of IT industry companies", [6] raising questions about conflicts of interest [7] and resulting in extensive media coverage over the following days. [8] [9] [10] A pre-announcement commits to the official publication of this document on 30 March 2009 (in spite of calls to publish it earlier [11]), at which time the identities of the signatories ("several of the largest technology companies and organizations" led by IBM [12] along with OMG [13] and believed also to include Cisco, HP, [12] and Sun Microsystems [14] [15]) is said to be revealed. [16] Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Salesforce.com are among those known to have rejected the document by declining to be signatories. [17] [18] The document was leaked by Geva Perry in a blog post on 27 March 2009 [19] and confirmed to be authentic shortly afterwards. [20]
The authors of both public and private documents have agreed to "work to bring together the best points of each effort". [21]
The Open Cloud Manifesto version, developed in private by a secret consortium [15] [22] of companies, was prematurely revealed by Microsoft's Senior Director of Developer Platform Product Management, Steve Martin on 26 March 2009. They claim that they were "privately shown a copy of the document, warned that it was a secret, and told that it must be signed 'as is,' without modifications or additional input", a point which is disputed by Reuven Cohen (originally believed to be the document's author). [23] [24] Some commentators found it ironic that Microsoft should speak out in support of open standards [25] while others felt that their criticism was justified, [26] [27] comparing it to the "long, ugly war over WS-I". [28] The call for open cloud standards was later echoed by Brandon Watson, Microsoft's Director of Cloud Services Ecosystem. [29] [30]
The following principles are defined by the document: [1]
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The Cloud Computing Manifesto is a manifesto containing a "public declaration of principles and intentions" for cloud computing providers and vendors, [1] annotated as "a call to action for the worldwide cloud community" and "dedicated belief that the cloud should be open". [2] It follows the earlier development of the Cloud Computing Bill of Rights which addresses similar issues from the users' point of view. [3]
The document was developed "by way of an open community consensus process" [1] in response to a request by Microsoft that "any 'manifesto' should be created, from its inception, through an open mechanism like a Wiki, for public debate and comment, all available through a Creative Commons license". [4] Accordingly, it is hosted on a MediaWiki wiki and licensed under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license. [1]
The original, controversial version of the document called the Open Cloud Manifesto was sharply criticised by Microsoft who "spoke out vehemently against it" [5] for being developed in secret by a "shadowy group of IT industry companies", [6] raising questions about conflicts of interest [7] and resulting in extensive media coverage over the following days. [8] [9] [10] A pre-announcement commits to the official publication of this document on 30 March 2009 (in spite of calls to publish it earlier [11]), at which time the identities of the signatories ("several of the largest technology companies and organizations" led by IBM [12] along with OMG [13] and believed also to include Cisco, HP, [12] and Sun Microsystems [14] [15]) is said to be revealed. [16] Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Salesforce.com are among those known to have rejected the document by declining to be signatories. [17] [18] The document was leaked by Geva Perry in a blog post on 27 March 2009 [19] and confirmed to be authentic shortly afterwards. [20]
The authors of both public and private documents have agreed to "work to bring together the best points of each effort". [21]
The Open Cloud Manifesto version, developed in private by a secret consortium [15] [22] of companies, was prematurely revealed by Microsoft's Senior Director of Developer Platform Product Management, Steve Martin on 26 March 2009. They claim that they were "privately shown a copy of the document, warned that it was a secret, and told that it must be signed 'as is,' without modifications or additional input", a point which is disputed by Reuven Cohen (originally believed to be the document's author). [23] [24] Some commentators found it ironic that Microsoft should speak out in support of open standards [25] while others felt that their criticism was justified, [26] [27] comparing it to the "long, ugly war over WS-I". [28] The call for open cloud standards was later echoed by Brandon Watson, Microsoft's Director of Cloud Services Ecosystem. [29] [30]
The following principles are defined by the document: [1]
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