David I fully agree with all your points. IMO however, us cloudstack guys have been behaving with decorum, others seem not to have been I do feel that there seems to be an agenda with the OS folks and I fear that is an agenda being promoted from the "top" of their community. The problem is that this stuff sticks if it goes on without defence
Kind regards Giles On 13 Oct 2012, at 18:12, "David Nalley" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks: > > So a couple of comments. > I appreciate the level of passion seen in this thread - it tells me > that people love CloudStack. That said, open source projects competing > among themselves is almost always fruitless. The world is large enough > for two, three, or more open source IaaS projects. (Just like the > world is big enough for PostgreSQL and MySQL; Red Hat, Ubuntu, SLES, > Slackware, and others.) In short, this project's goal is not to beat > OpenStack. The goal is to be a useful, stable, community-led > Infrastructure-as-a-Service open source project. > > When you see articles that contain misinformation, it's perfect > acceptable to provide corrections. It's also important to catch what > they see as legitimate defects - file those as bugs, and lets correct > them. Far more valuable though, IMO, is that we spend our time doing > the the following two things: > 1. Testing, fixing, and documenting Apache CloudStack so that it is > the best IaaS platform available. (Have you tested the latest 4.0.0 RC > builds?) > 2. Telling the story of how/why we use CloudStack (notice I didn't say > why it's better, or why it beats $foo project) > > To that end, John Kinsella has been working with Apache Infrastructure > to get an Apache CloudStack planet setup where we can aggregate such > blogs, so watch for updates on this front and consider aggregating > your blog there, but don't hesitate to start blogging now :) > > --David > ShapeBlue provides a range of strategic and technical consulting and implementation services to help IT Service Providers and Enterprises to build a true IaaS compute cloud. ShapeBlue’s expertise, combined with CloudStack technology, allows IT Service Providers and Enterprises to deliver true, utility based, IaaS to the customer or end-user. ________________________________ This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Shape Blue Ltd. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. Shape Blue Ltd is a company incorporated in England & Wales.
