It would be helpful for us to know the vendor I work in the Citrix Alliances group and I'd be glad to help there.
Given the laundry list of vendors who have a financial stake in OpenStack it's not going to be the first time we hear this. Keep in mind Citrix has a myriad of products and they partner with Amazon, Google, Microsoft and a number of OpenStack supporters it will always be a case of "and" and not "or". We've fought bias from analysts for years who make big bucks from OpenStack supporters. If the only voice speaking to analysts is Citrix it won't make a difference. I do know a number of community members spoke to the 451 Group recently. Lobbying Lydia Leong(@cloudpundit) on Twitter to share our collective stories would help quite a bit. Mark On Dec 15, 2014, at 9:52 PM, Adrian Lewis <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Just had this very disappointing reply when asking a commercial vendor about integrating their product with CS: The recent changes in Citrix corp around the strategic direction of Cloudstack leaves a lot of risk from the enterprise support aspect. Key people leaving and reorganization causing problems with viability and direction. Cloudstack has a vibrant community aspect which Citrix probably won't let die but the enterprise support side might pivot towards Openstack. This leaves Cloudstack out in the cold, not dead but only with no commercial support in the community. Most major vendors are around Openstack, and Citrix might be forced to shift. [Commercial Vendor] believes in the freedom of all clouds; however, we have to focus one area at a time. Once AWS, Openstack, hypervisor we might have capacity to be more encompassing. Looks like Citrix really need to put out a better message to the industry if this is not the case, if only to protect their Cloud Platform revenues. It seems that a few poorly worded blog posts by ‘analysts’ have done a lot of damage. This is not the first commercial vendor that seems to hold this opinion. Is there anything more to add to this? Adrian
