The Battle of the Cloud Frameworks: Application Servers Redux?
Monday, May 3, 2010, 3:03PM - William Vambenepe
The battle of the cloud frameworks has started, and it will look a lot like the battle of the application servers which played out over the last decade and a half. cloud frameworks (which manage IT automation and runtime outsourcing) are to the programmable datacenter what application servers are to the individual IT server. In the longer term, these battlefronts may merge, but for now we’ve been transported back in time, to the early days of Web programming. The underlying dynamic is the same. It starts with a disruptive IT event (part new technology, part new mindset). 15 years ago the disruptive event was the Web. Today it’s cloud computing.
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