On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 23:14 +1000, Koper, Dies wrote: > I wonder how many cloud providers will support the CIMI API. > If all DMTF members will support it, wouldn't that render DC obsolete? > If few DMTF members will actually support it, what is the real benefit > to users for DC to be CIMI -only?
I think you've hit the nail on the head - right now, we have users of the Deltacloud API, while the future of CIMI is still to be charted. At the same time, we want to help CIMI to be successful, so I don't see an alternative to having both frontends for now. I think a discussion around CIMI only is premature, even though I hope that it will prove to be a technical and market success. Once we have more clarity on that, we should take this up again; at that point, the one thing that is nonnegotiable is that existing users aren't left holding the bag and need to rewrite everything. In the meantime, every patch that gets submitted for CIMI helps in making it successful. David
