On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Erika L. Rich <elr...@ruwebby.com> wrote:
> > The only alternative I see is Amazon or Rackspace home grown. > > The crappy thing is I love the cloud. I never want to store my data locally > again. Once you are in the cloud you never want to go back to anything > else. > No more nightmares about hard drives failing, laptops getting dropped, > blowing up etc. > My basic goal for Colony has been to build a system that enables you to pop a server onto the cloud and deploy any one of a number of built-in functional modules - collaboration, file storage, etc., with an intention for the server to be used by a single person or a small group of people, and then to build a p2p communication system among the server to build higher level collaborations, e.g. Facebook, in a distributed system where no single entity controls the platform. I'd like the base system to be open source so anyone can join. Identity is the single biggest challenge, and why I say it's the most important issue facing users on the Net. Since it can be run in a VM, folks could even download it and run it locally if they can't afford a VM in the cloud. There have been a couple of projects like that brewing, but nothing that I have has really taken off. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:339217 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
