We here at Combat Consulting are firmly behind the Open Cloud Manifesto.

The problem is that the behemoths like Amazon and Microsoft are not interested in an open standard.I expect they will come around eventually.

The small and the powerless want rules, standards and cooperation. The big and the powerful do not. At best they pay lip service to them and press their advantages in spite of the agreements.

One simply has to look at the 19th Century attempts to get the British to obey the rules of the sea, rules that limited their power and advantage.

The rules were ignored for a long time, until British power waned, but eventually the standards took hold and are now universal.