Cloud Computing (OpenInsight 32-Bit)
At 23 SEP 2010 01:13:00PM Revelation Software wrote:
Has anyone in the community done any work with OpenInsight and the cloud? We;re looking at making this easier in the future, and we're looking at a couple of different approaches.
Has anyone doen work with some of the databases available for the cloud, such as Cassandra, or something different?
Does anyone in the Revelation community have any interest in cloud computing?
Thanks
At 23 SEP 2010 05:08PM Martin Drenovac wrote:
I've got some development and testing for Ruby on Rails and MySQL in Amazon under Ubuntu.
Yes, am next going to trial OI under Microsoft 2008, either on Amazon ore perhaps Azure.
Am very interested in OI on Cloud, particularly for O4W.
At 29 SEP 2010 04:35PM Karl Pozmann wrote:
I've been working with Salesforce and there are many pros and cons. The pros are that it's incredibly easy to work with. For example, once you've defined the object in developer force, the database is automatically updated - meaning there is no need to create or maintain database tables.
As far as cons, we're looking at developing an online app that we need to make as inexpensive as possible. Salesforce has several different pricing schemes on a monthly basis, all of which on the surface appear to be too expensive and more well suited for smaller applications.
We also need to look at alternative costs and if we were to bring it in-house that could be expensive as well. Now we're looking at hosting by companies like Liquidweb and Infinitely Virtual, which then brings up security issues, and it appears Rackspace may have the edge on that front. At this point I guess I'm talking more about an ASP model versus cloud, as we would deploy to these servers versus doing everything including development on them as well.
But I ramble. In short, look at Salesforce.com (ala developerfore.com) as a model and make revelation.com a lot better by marrying in OI and(hopefully) less expensive!
What I would like to see from Revelation would be a framework similar to salesforce that fully manages authentication and users - there are tutorials and documentation there that explains it pretty well. Keep track of user and session variables that we have access to. The developer portal would allow you to login and you get an environment similar to what we have to work with now, but redesigned for use in a browser, again perhaps using salesforce aka developerforce as a model