Re: [RFR] Press release about Debian on public clouds
Le Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 01:26:50PM +0800, Paul Wise a écrit :
>
> I like the buildings analogy for this stuff:
>
> Having a private cloud is like owning a bunch of buildings on your own
> land and keeping most of them empty most of the time.
>
> Putting some servers into a data-centre is like owning a bunch of
> buildings built on land rented from someone else.
>
> Using IaaS (public cloud) is like renting an empty building with the
> usual utilities; electricity, water, gas.
>
> Using PaaS is like renting a pre-furnished room in a building.
>
> Using SaaS is like visiting the library, post office or a restaurant.
>
> Everyone makes a trade-off when they decide where in the spectrum they
> feel comfortable with. It is all about asking yourself the question "am
> I free enough?". Every choice is valid but some are more risky than
> others and it all comes down to our trust in society. In this day and
> age the majority of people choose proprietary CPU designs, prebuilt
> computers, proprietary software, SaaS, renting a room and eating out.
> Then society lets them down in various ways; CPU bugs, hardware
> keyloggers, unfixable security bugs, vendor lock-in, cockroaches, food
> poisoning and so on. We should remind people of the risks of their
> choices and try to move them to better options.
Hi Paul and everybody,
I think that this is an interesting analogy.
We still have the contents of cloud.debian.org (www.debian.org/cloud ?)
to build from scratch, and this thread underlines that we will need
to explain our views in addition of increasing our presence where we can.
Do you think that this text (with any needed enhancement) could be relevant for
our website ?
Cheers,
--
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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