If you look at it objectively - while lack of Citrix's involvement to create foundation - hurt the project, it also ensured that our code base is less of a zoo - OpenStack has these days.
My 2'cents, its much easier to work with a project that has relatively small committer base VS thousands of committer OS has. Imagine 2000 active committers and 2000 opinions on how something should be done. That makes it very difficult to manage and deliver stability in addition to being able to guarantee that upgrade process from version X to version Z goes through cleanly. A simple example is our back log queue - Will and others are trying to clear now. Its nothing in comparison to OpenStack backlog. Hence, you see just about any company out there, spins up their own flavor of OpenStack. I can easily count 10 different flavors of openstack - that lock you in to their version only and then $milk$ you for support and anything else you might need. On 4/28/16 5:07 AM, Nux! wrote: > If > > -- > Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > > Nux! > www.nux.ro > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Madan Ganesh Velayudham" <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Thursday, 28 April, 2016 06:09:33 >> Subject: OpenStack Revenues Approaching $3.4B: 451 Research > >> 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
