> On Apr 28, 2016, at 7:03 PM, Steve Wilson <steve.wil...@citrix.com> wrote: > > I agree that CloudStack works and is great technology. However, OpenStack > won the marketing war because their foundation was set up to do so. All > attempts that Mark Hinkle and others made to pull together a real marketing > alliance to promote CloudStack as an industry initiative seemed to run afoul > of Apache rules/processes/organization.
The decision to donate the software to Apache, was Citrix’s decision. And Apache is not a marketing alliance operating for the benefit of its sponsoring companies. Apache operates for the public good. If that’s what Citrix wanted to do, they should not have given Cloudstack to ASF in the first place. That said Cloudera and Hortonworks and Datastax and other companies have successfully built great businesses on top of Apache software. Too bad Citrix did not manage it. End of story > > This is an area where CloudStack could really do better. > > -Steve > > From: Will Stevens <williamstev...@gmail.com> > Reply-To: "marketing@cloudstack.apache.org" <marketing@cloudstack.apache.org> > Date: Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 7:39 AM > To: "marketing@cloudstack.apache.org" <marketing@cloudstack.apache.org> > Subject: Re: OpenStack Revenues Approaching $3.4B: 451 Research > > Openstack is just bitter because they still don't have a product that works > and our product works just fine. Just goes to show that more money doesn't > always solve the problem... :) All that money and almost no success > stories. Kind of sad really... > > On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 1:09 AM, Madan Ganesh Velayudham > <madangan...@actonmagic.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > Just bumped onto this article, thought of sharing: > > http://www.eweek.com/cloud/openstack-revenues-approaching-3.4b-451-research.html > > <snip> > The decision to turn over OpenStack to a foundation in 2012 stands in > contrast to the CloudStack platform and its parent, Citrix. Citrix donated > CloudStack to the Apache Software Foundation, but it was never set up with > the same true, multi-stakeholder, stand-alone foundation as OpenStack's. > > "If Citrix would have done a foundation around CloudStack, we would now be at > a Cloudstack Summit, not OpenStack Summit," Sadowski said." Sadowski said. > <snip> > > The bold highlighted line was hurting a little bit! > > Cheers, > Madan > > -- > Madan Ganesh Velayudham > Founder & CEO > ActOnMagic > > Cloud Governance, Analytics, Management Simplified with ActOnCloud! > www.actonmagic.com >
