I see a lot of "theoretical" interest, from companies who will adopt it once it becomes more adopted. Chicken and egg problem.

The prime push for standards is coming from the government at this point, to allow them to specify something standard in their RFQs. I'm not hooked into the gov't angle, unfortunately.

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Alexis Richardson <alexis.richardson@gmail.com> wrote:
Shlomo

What would you say is the current state of OCCI adoption and activity
in the US?  Who is most interested in 'the next step'?

alexis




On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:34 AM,  <shlomo.swidler@gmail.com> wrote:
> I presented OCCI and CloudAudit at the CloudConnect event this week, on Wed.
> 17 March, the third day of the conference. The presentation is on
> SlideShare:
> http://www.slideshare.net/shl0m0/cloud-connect-occi-cloudaudit-standards-update
> This was given as the first presentation of the day, in the session entitled
> "Where we are today: the state of the standards".
> I received very positive feedback on it; two people independently came up to
> me and said it was the best presentation they'd yet seen at the conference.
> The contentious standards panel that you may have heard about happened later
> in the day. Some links to various writeups about that:
> http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2010/03/let_stormy_sess.html
> http://doubleclix.wordpress.com/2010/03/17/the-art-of-cloud-standards/
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