' ACT and the Cloud: Allies or rivals? '

In the title - the name of the roundtable, which will be held in the conference program. Russian Open Source Summit 2011.
The matter will be held April 12 (Tuesday ) in the hotel's business center ' Renaissance ' (Olympic Avenue, m. ' Mira ', ' Dostoevsky's ), from 17 to 18 hours.

Cook and will conduct this COP I Kolesov Andrei. And on the Rights of the organizer, I invite all those interested in the topic of this discussion ( Please note - visit the conference is free, however, probably should register. Perhaps you can even have only come to it. ) And as a moderator, I promise that ALL who have something to say, there will be heard.

I'll try to do some preliminary discussion on the blogs to intramural conversation was more productive. While the three main issues identified for discussion:.

- Are the clouds open source software alternative?.
- Are there differences in the Clouds, realized on the basis of the ACT and on the basis of proprietary software?.
- Migration to the traditional model of open source software in cloudy.

As soon as the format. The idea is this: is ' the Bureau ' of 5-6 experts, preferably - from different positions in the IT market ( customers, suppliers and independent experts ) and different positions on the COP. And it will be room, which is not just a listener but an active participant in the discussion.

My goal now - to know who would like to not just come, but also to participate actively in a conversation. From this list of experts will be formed ' Bureau ', but - I repeat once again - will disskusiya general, the division of the ' Bureau ' and ' room ' will be quite a conditional.
So, if you want to get into the ' active list ', then just let me know (via a blog or letter - kolesov @ pcweek. ru).

If you have any views on the form and content - and write, discuss.

Now a little about the topic of the COP.

I am writing on the cloud theme for a long time, two or three years, started when the word is also in the IT Cloud did not use. There have been several major reviews. That's one of the latest articles -. ' Forecast of IT forecast: up to full cloud cover is far '. 'm At events (including foreign ones, yesterday was the two (! ), Moscow ), participated and conducted round tables.

So I want to say that it is now experiencing a topic of Cloud Crisis in Russia. The theme ' reinstall ' (in the sense, has become ' worn ', ' sackcloth '), quite vulgarized... The word is used for any occasion and 80 % - not the case.

The problem is that progress in the level of discussion topics is almost not observed. On the one hand, the growing fashion for a theme ( though the word ' fashion' in IT is almost clearly negative connotation ). On the other hand, the theoretical talk of ' the bright future of the cloud ' is clearly in no hurry to jump into some practical plane.

I would like to see this on the COP to try to raise the bar a little discussion. For this to be useful for the participants ( and not just pass the time until the close of the conference).

I am confident that with the help of active participants, it can be implemented.

So - I invite to take part in the preparation of the COP and its holding.