Getting there involves a heady mix of chicken buses and trucks (all under the watchful companionship of Rivera), but as the ridges of the mountains start to emerge from behindtheclouds of dust, and then emerge some more, it is clear this is a special place.
And off in the violet distance behind them, prodding them along in their efforts, are the faint outlines of silvery cumulus clouds boiling up in the haze.
The idea behind Deltacloud and other efforts to provide one standard API for many clouds is to maximize choices for developers at each layer of the stack.