One more cloud database joins the mix
Posted on April 17, 2008 by Chris DeBrusk
Not exactly breaking news but I found it interesting that yet another cloud database provider has joined the mix. QuickBase has launched a developers program that promises to allow you to build Web 2.0 applications using their architecture and the Adobe Flex framework.
I’ve not really played around with Adobe Flex but they have a demo video up on the site that has tweaked my interest so if I can carve a few hours out of a weekend I may see if I can get it up and running. I am dreading trying to figure out yet another object model though.
With all the majors clamoring for developers to join their cloud initiatives (Microsoft…where are you in this game?) I’m still struggling to figure out the real angle here. I get the advantage of someone else managing all your scaling but I’m still not sure that a major site who might really have the traffic to justify a large cloud is going to be willing to give up this much control over their infrastructure. That reduces these efforts to prototyping platforms which I don’t think is a scalable vision nor the intent of Google, Amazon and Intuit.
That being said, I am very interested to see if an ecosystem of applications starts to sprout on these platforms. Now that would be very cool - have a great idea that builds on the basic building blocks of Web 2.0 (social networking, messaging, etc.)? No problem, rent or borrow someone else’s functionality and integrate it with your own. Sort of the open source model but rather than downloading source to your own servers, plug into application services that sit on the cloud. Even better if you can plug into data services to get reference data that your application requires.
Now that would be interesting….
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