I am building a cloud

I do not like the cloud today. I want to. Computers are great, whether it is a BSD installed directly on a PC or a Linux VM. I can enjoy Windows, BeOS, Novell NetWare, I even installed OS/2 Warp back in the day and had a great time with it. Linux is particularly powerful today and a source of endless potential. And for all the pages of products, the cloud is just Linux VMs. Better, they are API driven Linux VMs. I should be in heaven. But every cloud product I try is wrong. Some are better than others, but I am constantly constrained by the choices cloud vendors make in ways that make it hard to get computers to do the things I want them to do. David Crawshaw