Essential Issues, Such as Licensing and Billing, in the Cloud Will Make or Break ISV Success

Who:

Wayne Citrin

CTO

JNBridge

(www.jnbridge.com)  

Citrin is Chief Technology Officer at JNBridge. He is the architect of JNBridge Pro, and has been devoted to Java and .NET interoperability issues since .NET's beta days, more than nine years ago. Prior to co-founding JNBridge, Citrin was a leading researcher in programming languages and compilers, and was on the Computer Engineering faculty at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He was a researcher at IBM's research lab in Zurich, Switzerland and has a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in Computer Science. He has given presentations at JavaOne, Microsoft's TechEd and TechReady, and numerous academic and technical conferences.

What:

ISVs and the Cloud

If you ask most people how software vendors can move into the cloud, they will say that the vendor should take their traditional products, put them in the cloud, and offer them as services. But what about other software vendors who create components that other developers incorporate into their own programs? In most cases, offering the component as a service doesn't make sense.

The main challenge to running components in Cloud-based programs has to do with essential issues, like licensing and billing. Windows Azure has absolutely no provision for third-party licensing and billing. It's a chicken-and-egg problem. If Microsoft is serious about its software partners producing for Azure (and not just end-user customers creating custom applications), Microsoft will have to jump-start the market by offering their own billing mechanism.

One would think that barriers to entry wouldn't be there, and that Cloud providers would do all they could to encourage software vendors to help settle this new frontier. Without a robust partner community for both Azure and Amazon Web Services, Cloud adoption will be that much slower for everyone.

How:

The industry needs interoperability solutions for IT organizations that need to integrate Java and Microsoft .NET  applications running in the Cloud – especially as a high-performance alternative to existing Web services protocols. The vision of Cloud interoperability should be any object, on any platform, in any language, anywhere, and at any time. Solutions such as this are needed because existing web services protocols are too slow for IT organizations trying to meet demanding service level agreements frequently associated with Cloud computing, Citrin says.

To read Wayne Citrin's full blog post on this topic please visit: (http://www.jnbridge.com/jn/?p=277)

Contact:

For more information or to set up an interview with Wayne Citrin, please contact:

Christie Denniston

Catapult PR-IR

303-581-7760, ext. 13

([email protected])