Re: [Openstack] what is the meaning to alliance with VMWare?

2013-07-29 Thread Peter Cheung
Dear Brian thanks for reply. May be because there is no cheap AIX, so linux and AIX can be sell in different price range. But in here, the market is : openstack compete with ESXi or ESX essential plus. We are a consultancy firm, our sales are competing with VMware sales. In HK, vmware sales

Re: [Openstack] what is the meaning to alliance with VMWare?

2013-07-28 Thread Brian Schott
OpenStack is an open-source foundation with lots of potential competitors working together to build a common infrastructure.  As long as they abide by the contributor license agreement anyone is welcome to participate in our open-source community.  So, OpenStack doesn't have an alliance with

[Openstack] what is the meaning to alliance with VMWare?

2013-07-27 Thread Peter Cheung
Hi All What is the meaning to alliance with VMWare? In hong kong or china, customer is deciding to switch to Openstack from VMWare to save cost. There will be nobody to buy vmware solution and build openstack on top of it, and there is no one will build their cloud half in vmware and half in