{"id":36778,"date":"2012-07-19T15:02:05","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T13:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/?p=3484"},"modified":"2012-07-19T15:02:05","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T13:02:05","slug":"open-source-relevant-for-the-cloud-yes-more-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/blogs\/open-source-relevant-for-the-cloud-yes-more-than-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Source Relevant for the Cloud \u2013 Yes, more than Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en-->A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/reuvencohen\/2012\/07\/12\/does-open-source-software-matter-in-the-cloud-era\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article in Forbes <\/a>got me thinking. Is open source still relevant in the cloud age?<\/p>\n<p>I mean, everyone is going to the cloud, right, so who cares what is behind the cloud \u2013 all you want is the function of the cloud, the rest is unnecessary, right?<\/p>\n<p>The cloud makes life for the end user easier than ever \u2013 to mix metaphors, they are getting more and more used to just \u201cturning the key.\u201d But what makes this unprecedented ease-of-use possible? Interoperability, access, open standards, modularity. Now, more than ever, flexibility is what\u2019s needed.<\/p>\n<p>What, then, does open source have to do with it?<\/p>\n<p>Open source is: modular. Secure. Cost effective. Standards compliant. Customizable. Configurable. Based on what the group thinks is the best technical approach, not the best approach for a company to make money.<\/p>\n<p>See OpenStack as an example. Or ownCloud.<\/p>\n<p>What, then, do you get when you put open source in the cloud? All that, which basically leads to Innovation. Flexibility. Options. So, I would suggest that, while to many the innards of cloud services don\u2019t matter \u2013 they just want the service \u2013 that the path to providing that service is open source.<\/p>\n<p>In the cloud, I posit that open source software is more important than ever.<!--:--><!--:de--><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent article in Forbes got me thinking. Is open source still relevant in the cloud age? I mean, everyone is going to the cloud, right, so who cares what is behind the cloud \u2013 all you want is the function of the cloud, the rest is unnecessary, right? The cloud makes life for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":78665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}