Dear Brian thanks for reply. May be because there is no cheap AIX, so linux
and AIX can be sell in different price range. But in here, the market is :
openstack compete with ESXi or ESX essential plus. We are a consultancy firm,
our sales are competing with VMware sales. In HK, vmware sales even want us
die. If we die, the only competitor left is microsoft.The war here is very
obvious.
Thanksfrom Peter
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 05:11:03 -0700
From: brian.sch...@nimbisservices.com
To: mcheun...@hotmail.com
CC: openstack@lists.launchpad.net
Subject: Re: [Openstack] what is the meaning to alliance with VMWare?
OpenStack is an open-source foundation with lots of potential competitors
working together to build a common infrastructure. As long as they abide by
the contributor license agreement anyone is welcome to participate in our
open-source community. So, OpenStack doesn't have an "alliance" with VMware.
If you are asking why VmWare chose to participate as heavily as it does in
OpenStack, there is a lot of business analysis/speculation out there in the
blogsphere, but the short answer is that markets change.
I'm sure that there were folks wondering why IBM participated in Linux at the
time when customers were making a decision beween AIX (a total vertical
solution) and Linux. AIX and Linux both still exist and IBM makes money on
both technologies in different markets.—
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On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 12:35 AM, Peter Cheung <mcheun...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hi All What is the meaning to alliance with VMWare? In hong kong or china,
customer is deciding to switch to Openstack from VMWare to save cost. There
will be nobody to buy vmware solution and build openstack on top of it, and
there is no one will build their cloud half in vmware and half in openstack
too. They did that because of some reasons:
1) If customer have budget to purchase vmware, vmware's vendor will provide
them total solution, 100% in vmware infrastructure. The vendor is not interest
to sell customer with vmware solution and build an openstack on top of it,
because they think it is useless. The vendors think the dashboard cannot
compete with vCenter. vCenter still the best option to manage vmware.
Similarly, nobody can create a tool to replace microsoft management tool for
SQL server, noone will get a success.
2) for private cloud, customer is thinking *EITHER* vmware or openstack, that
mean they are competitor. Why alliance with an enemy?
Thanksfrom Peter (Pandora dev team)
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