Well said, Somesh, My few cents,
The reason for downfall in cloudstack adoption cannot be attributed to Citrix factor alone. In our Budapest meet, the foundation proposed to increase the marketing efforts for Apache CloudStack and dedicated dev support from majority of companies contributing to Cloudstack. I feel, this will have a great and positive impact to Cloudstack adoption. Cheers, Madan -- Madan Ganesh Velayudham Founder & CEO ActOnMagic @Go2Maga | @ActOnMagic | +91 966 336 7468 ____________________________ Important Disclaimer This message may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information and is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you are not the original intended recipient of the message, please reply to the sender and destroy all copies of the original message. www.actonmagic.com ____________________________ On 23 January 2015 at 11:10:37 pm, Somesh Naidu ([email protected]) wrote: Worth noting that Cloudstack (including its production customers) existed before Citrix ... If there is a downfall in Cloudstack adoption or use in the industry I’d like to think there are certain other, more significant industry factors behind that. None the less, as far as I can see, Citrix continues to have a large number of dedicated engineers (dev/qa/support/etc) working on Cloudstack. As Giles mentioned, there will be speculations around and will continue to be, but more so during this transition when ACS as a community is growing stronger and autonomous; not being driven by certain organization/s like some other open source software are. I thought that was a good thing and believe it is the Apache way (philosophy). “every vendor on the planet claims to be OpenStack-compatible” The above quote from the article you pointed, wonder what’s in it for the proprietary vendors? We all know they don’t do it for nothing! Regards, Somesh From: Giles Sirett [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 11:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Negative Press Hi Sunando Well done for picking this up. Its always frustrating when we read articles like this – but don’t be too downbeat, it wont be the last! But you are right – many people in the industry do associate Cloudstack with Citrix. Citrix have been amazing supporters of Cloudstack (remember, they created it) but right now you are correct that the market and user base has a degree of uncertainty about their ongoing involvement. I hear it every day. Although officially Citrix are still committed t ACS, the people leaving in droves and the reductions in contributions from that end only point to one thing IMO. Any individual (from any company) is free to contribute as much or as little as they like to an Apache project, and no organisation has any obligation to work in a project. But I do not think this lingering uncertainty is not good for anybody (especially the Cloudstack project) and fully agree that Citrix should be clearer around their strategy with ACS. Cloudstack can and will survive if Citrix aren’t around, but too much uncertainty in the media is sub-optimal IMO Kind Regards Giles D: +44 20 3603 0541 | M: +44 796 111 2055 [email protected] From: Sunando Bhattacharya [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 23 January 2015 15:09 To: [email protected] Subject: Negative Press Hi everyone, I hope you would have perused this article http://www.virtual-strategy.com/2015/01/22/executive-viewpoint-2015-prediction-nimboxx-transforming-data-center#axzz3PeoRWcm2 Is there any strategy to counter such negative press? We really need to get Cloudstack out of the shadows of Citrix, or get Citrix to come out strongly in support of its continued commitment and support to Cloudstack. -- Best! 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