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Jetpack to the WP.com Cloud

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I wish WordPress would use unique names for their software releases. Didn't they just have that namespace collision with Django? It's great that they checked with Mozilla before using the name "Jetpack", but it's still going to confuse some people if used without the prefix.

There's no namespace collision here. The word namespace has a specific meaning; it doesn't just mean whatever you want it to mean.

http://www.wordnik.com/words/namespace

I was expecting a simple Heroku-style scalable cloud hosting solution for Wordpress with one-click deploy from wordpress.org. A few plugins that wordpress hosts doesn't seem like that exciting of a feature :\

Same here. The use of the word "cloud" here is a misnomer and feels very strange coming from a group of folks many of us previously assumed were above that sort of hype.

I'm confused why someone would want to run the decidedly hamstrung version of Wordpress if they have the option to run the "real thing"?

For example, Wordpress.com blogs do not allow JavaScript of any kind. They make decisions like this to better be able to handle the scalability of their hosted offering, and for that it's entirely logical, if not a bit annoying.

Would the Jetpack version of Wordpress be similarly locked down? Of course you could make tweaks to it to do whatever you want with it once you host it on your own, but then again, why not just use the full wordpress.org version?

Open-sourcing a few plugins that were previously only available to Wordpress.com users would be just as nice, but I guess then the ability to put the word "cloud" in big type doesn't fit as well.

We're trying to remove all the barriers you used to have to hosting WP yourself, from ease of upgrading to the cool social features on WP.com that are in or coming to Jetpack.

I don't want to host every WordPress blog in the world -- too much trouble. :) Also not how the internet should work. This gives you the best of decentralized and centralized. Many of the third-party hosts are doing crazy-nice stuff already with scaling and failover, they just don't market it in a Heroku-manner because their standard pricing works so well. (The launch partners for Jetpack have close to 2B in revenue collectively.)

"I already use a plugin that is now part of Jetpack (such as WordPress.com Stats). What do I do now? As we upgrade each of our individual plugins to be a part of Jetpack, we’ll prompt you to switch over to the new, Jetpack-powered version."

What I'm reading here is that I'll soon be dropping Wordpress.com stats entirely. I don't want a bloated plugin like Jetpack when all I need from it is the stats plugin. Thanks but no thanks.

FAQ: Some individual features that Jetpack provides will be free, but others in the future may require payment.

I don't know if people will fully understand Jetpack yet, because it's early -- like the iPhone 1G. But this is the most significant release Automattic has done yet, in my opinion.

it seems like this is just a group of hosted plugins. what am i missing?

Has anyone else interpreted this title + link like this:

Jetpack to the WP.com Cloud: Jet pack me!

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