I have some ideas I would like to discuss off-line. Anyone interested should contact me at james.fos...@gemtalksystems.com.
James On Jan 26, 2013, at 8:04 AM, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.duca...@inria.fr> wrote: > andy > > thanks for this discussion. It would be good to raise a kind of consensus > because this is an effort that the association > could support. > > Stef > > On Jan 26, 2013, at 11:41 AM, Andy Burnett wrote: > >>> he, sorry for insist, but cloudfoundry already does that... and is >>> opensource too :) >>> at ESUG I seen James present it to deploy pharo images... so is viable :) >>> >>> cheers, >>> Esteban >>> >> >> I agree. And, I was really quite optimistic about cloud foundry when >> it first came out. I particularly like the way you can have a local >> micro cloud, and then transition to the hosted cloud. My only >> disappointment was that VMware are not - seemingly - going to offer >> gemstone as an option on cloudfoundry.com. >> Building on what Janko said, I think it is really important to join >> the cloud 'wave'. >> >> The question is how might we - collectively - make this happen? I am >> perfectly happy to go with cloud foundry, or open shift, or any other >> option if more knowledgeable people can show that X is the way to go. >> My only requirement is that I don't want to deal with anyone lower >> than pharo. All OS patches need to be done automagically by the >> hosting provider. I think cloudfoundry.com and open shift do that, but >> my understanding of cloudfoundry.org is that this is a 'roll it >> yourself' solution. Obviously, that would require someone to step up >> and do that for us. >> My preference would be for us to create a suitably configured module >> for one of e platforms, and we can then start getting experience with >> it. Stephane, is this something that the consortium might take a lead >> on? My company is happy to pay some of the costs, if this will help. >> >> Cheer >> Andy >> > > >
