On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 06:36:16PM +0000, Musayev, Ilya wrote: > 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".
I'd personally prefer if the project itself avoided doing that. > > > > > > -----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/ > > >
