David Douglas, Senior VIP Cloud Computing and Developer platforms, kicked off CommunityOne with healthy enthusiasm this morning. The central message is that communities are absolutely necessary for future development – and not just software but humanity as a whole. Very profound!

Lew Tucker then joined Douglas on the stage to talk about Cloud Computing. Pay as you go is the idea… and presumably how Sun hopes to turn its financial fortunes around. He notes that cloud computing is more likely to succeed when budgets for proprietary data centres are being slashed.

Douglas (left) and Tucker (right) then talked about Sun’s Open Cloud Platform. Early access for this platform is expected in Summer 09. The goal: Make it possible for any developer to have his or her own virtual data centre in the cloud. Data centre of course provides complete monitoring and control. Sun Cloud also provides load testing, as well a choice of app servers e.g. Tomcat, Glassfish. More info at www.sun.com/cloud and at the “cloud zone” at Java One.

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