According to the referenced article:

"According to the filing, Microsoft's technology will preserve the data,

It's a good thing we're extensible because Sun apparently just invented teleportation... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Craig McClanahan <craigmcc@gmail.com> Date: Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:50 AM Subject: Re: Microsoft files cloud data portability patent To: cloudforum@googlegroups.com On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:24 PM, tlukasik@exnihilum.com <tlukasik@exnihilum.com> wrote: meta-data, or service that's being terminated, roll it back to a state that allows migration, find a similar service comparable to the one already use, and then provide the migration."

Interesting that this comes out on the same day Sun announces the new "teleportation" feature of VirtualBox 3.1[1]. Craig [1] http://virtualbox.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF)" group. To post to this group, send email to cloudforum@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cloudforum+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com<cloudforum%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cloudforum?hl=en ----- Join our Twitter Group at www.twitter.com/cloudforum Or Our Linkedin Group at http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/927567