Sorry for the delay on this, I thought my messages were getting through but on talking to Linda, it appears they never arrived ;-)
I've previously encouraged Duncan (who is the CEO of CloudSoft who provide commercial support for JClouds) to nominate someone to lend a hand for Java EE 7 as I think they have a good insight into cloud. Not sure if/why it didn't happen?
On 26 Sep 2011, at 16:39, Werner Keil wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed, these went only to Linda...
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> Maybe one of the committers to this could already be EG or at least JCP members:
> http://www.jclouds.org/
> If not, trying to liaise with them or even get a representative to join the EG (of EE7 or any Cloud-specific JSR we might find useful) seems useful. Maybe our new CloudBees member also has connections with it?
>
> Some more background info as to where PaaS and SaaS work best so far:
> http://www.information-management.com/news/us-dominates-saas-10021132-1.html?ET=informationmgmt:e2557:2182980a:&st=email&utm_source=editorial&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=IM_Daily_091611
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> Furthermore after somebody at CloudBees joining the EG, is't there serious interest from VMWare/CloudFoundry to join as well?
> Although driven by a single company so far (similar to projects like Maven or Jenkins for most contributions<347.gif>) its home page claims it is an open infractructure for PaaS driven by vmware:
> http://cloudfoundry.org/
>
> As there is nobody from vmware/SpringSource in the EG so far after they joined EE6, maybe that question has already been raised/answered...?<326.gif>
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