On 2015-05-17 09:50, Adam Compton wrote: > I believe there is and always will be highly inelastic demand for some open > source cloud orchestration service, from at least two sectors: companies who > have data that they deem too dangerous to host on the public cloud (finance, > health services, etc.) and companies that aren't comfortable putting all of > their eggs in baskets they do not directly control (and particularly not in a > basket controlled by a competitor). > > It doesn't necessarily have to be OpenStack that wins the "open source AWS > alternative" battle, but I don't see anybody else who's in a stronger > position.
Typically these companies use VMWare. Some companies are evaluating OpenStack as an alternative due to the licensing cost of VMware. I don't know about the effort involved and what size of a company you need to justify it and offset the licensing cost. -- http://yves.zioup.com gpg: 4096R/32B0F416 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
