Employees use sites like linkedin and its easy to figure out what company X uses just by scanning what this or that person did/does. Also, search thru CS mailing lists of all user domains can help you gather that info.
It all goes back to public information. While technically - you cannot say that company X is using CS officially on ASF/Wiki or elsewhere, on private blogs, you can scan the web for all the public info and draw your conclusion. I guess the point I'm trying to make, strictly by using public sources, one can easily generate a list of companies that use CS but never publicize it. Would it be wrong to create one and say below is the list of "unconfirmed CS users". > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Brockmeier [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 1:47 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: CloudPlatform/CloudStack Customers and Marketing > > On Mon, May 20, 2013, at 12:35 PM, Ahmad Emneina wrote: > > i partially agree with the premise it could be mutually beneficial. > > Some companies view cloudstack as their competitive advantage, and > > guard that info religiously. > > Being an open source project/product that anyone can download, it's > certainly not an *exclusive* advantage for anyone. Obviously, it's an > awesome addition to any company's IT stack, but it's not like there's a > limited > supply of CloudStack to go around. > > The only thing I'd say companies gain from keeping mum about deployments > is that they keep other companies/recruiters from knocking at their door for > their CloudStack-proficient employees. > > Best, > > jzb > -- > Joe Brockmeier > [email protected] > Twitter: @jzb > http://www.dissociatedpress.net/
