#3: Cloud, Lock-in, and Choice

Dave and Gunnar talk about Netflix, Google Reader, open clouds, open security, and how to effectively stalk your seatmates on an airplane.

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This show also features an embarrassing editing mistake. Can you guess where? Tell us in the comments below!

Show Notes

• Shameless cross promotion: Future guests on Richard Morrell‘s most awesome Cloud Evangelist podcast
• “Netflix Cloud Prize”
• Linux Foundation says Fedora 9 would take $10.8B to develop using our good friend David A. Wheeler‘s methodology
• Meritalk Brocade Study
  > “94% of agencies that are infrastructure independent say they have saved money by using more than one manufacturer”
• Google makes 13 year old girl cry
  • Props to Google for Google Takeout
  • Gunnar’s exit strategies for Google Reader
    • Getting RSS via Email
    • Tiny Tiny RSS
    • Tiny Tiny RSS OpenShift Quickstart
    • Do it yourself!
• OpenSCAP now in evaluation.
• Gunnar’s SCAP Primer
• STIG and SCAP workshop with NSA, DISA, and Red Hat at an undisclosed location on March 26
  • Reach out to your Solutions Architect if you can’t make it. There may be other sessions.
• OSFA Awards nominations are open!
• US Customs and Border Protection and “The Wolf” Tombe
• Seeing the same people. Over and over. And freaking them out.

We Give Thanks

• Adam Clater for Dan Benamin’s podcast hack
• 2010 RHCE of the Year, the extraordinary Matt Micene for helping us make the in-browser player more usable.