Agreed Steve! I believe June Collab will see participicants work on launching a CloudStack marketing alliance.
Citrix was in an awkward situation (series of unfortunate events shall we say?) and was unable to get it done, but I just think that proves my point that sometimes it is easier to get things done if you are not a large disrupted enterprise IT vendor or otherwise under the control of one. Ian On Thursday, 28 April 2016, Steve Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree that CloudStack works and is great technology. However, OpenStack > won the marketing war because their foundation was set up to do so. All > attempts that Mark Hinkle and others made to pull together a real marketing > alliance to promote CloudStack as an industry initiative seemed to run > afoul of Apache rules/processes/organization. > > This is an area where CloudStack could really do better. > > -Steve > > From: Will Stevens <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> > Reply-To: "[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>" < > [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> > Date: Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 7:39 AM > To: "[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>" < > [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> > Subject: Re: OpenStack Revenues Approaching $3.4B: 451 Research > > Openstack is just bitter because they still don't have a product that > works and our product works just fine. Just goes to show that more money > doesn't always solve the problem... :) All that money and almost no > success stories. Kind of sad really... > > On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 1:09 AM, Madan Ganesh Velayudham < > [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: > >> Greetings, >> >> Just bumped onto this article, thought of sharing: >> >> >> http://www.eweek.com/cloud/openstack-revenues-approaching-3.4b-451-research.html >> >> <snip> >> The decision to turn over OpenStack to a foundation in 2012 stands in >> contrast to the CloudStack platform and its parent, Citrix. Citrix >> donated >> <http://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/citrix-walks-away-from-openstack-moves-to-apache-cloudstack.html> >> CloudStack to the Apache Software Foundation, but it was never set up with >> the same true, multi-stakeholder, stand-alone foundation as OpenStack's. >> >> "If Citrix would have done a foundation around CloudStack, *we would now >> be at a Cloudstack Summit, not OpenStack Summit*," Sadowski said." >> Sadowski said. >> <snip> >> >> The bold highlighted line was hurting a little bit! >> >> Cheers, >> Madan >> >> -- >> Madan Ganesh Velayudham >> Founder & CEO >> ActOnMagic >> >> *Cloud Governance, Analytics, Management Simplified with ActOnCloud!* >> www.actonmagic.com >> > > -- Ian Rae CEO | PDG c: 514.944.4008 CloudOps | Cloud Infrastructure and Networking Solutions www.cloudops.com | 420 rue Guy | Montreal | Canada | H3J 1S6
