<story><title>Cisco confirms it’s killing Intercloud public cloud in March 2017</title><url>http://venturebeat.com/2016/12/13/cisco-confirms-its-killing-intercloud-public-cloud-in-march-2017/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adrianN</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t like the idea that the whole Internet is running on the servers of a single company. Can&amp;#x27;t we do something to increase the competition in the &amp;quot;cloud&amp;quot; area?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yoodenvranx</author><text>&amp;gt; Can&amp;#x27;t we do something to increase the competition in the &amp;quot;cloud&amp;quot; area&lt;p&gt;Yes, we have to change our mindset back from &amp;quot;Let&amp;#x27;s put everything (apps and data) into the cloud&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;Let&amp;#x27;s only use the cloud as _one_ of many ways for data storage and data synching. Everything else is done locally and on private servers&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;This whole trend of web-apps is really bad for free software because it creates a dependency on 3rd party servers. Just imagine you could only use Emacs or Vim if you are connected to the internet...&lt;p&gt;We have to get rid of the idea that the default form of software is supposed to be a webpage. Make software local again and therefore reduce the influence of large cloud providers.</text></comment>
<story><title>Cisco confirms it’s killing Intercloud public cloud in March 2017</title><url>http://venturebeat.com/2016/12/13/cisco-confirms-its-killing-intercloud-public-cloud-in-march-2017/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adrianN</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t like the idea that the whole Internet is running on the servers of a single company. Can&amp;#x27;t we do something to increase the competition in the &amp;quot;cloud&amp;quot; area?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>setq</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not. If any of the big three entirely disappeared there wouldn&amp;#x27;t be a tear shed. It&amp;#x27;d be an inconvenience at most and people would suddenly be reminded about portability and lock in.&lt;p&gt;At a microscopic level it&amp;#x27;s pretty stupid, dangerous and short sighted building your product to conform to any of these providers&amp;#x27; services past the PaaS level. I see people with whole business on AWS who are a billing dispute away from weeks of downtime.</text></comment>