Peter, Example of OpenStack with vSphere -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2gBypQaxqk alexis On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Peter Cheung <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Clint. If we treat VMWare as a neighbor, we meet another trouble, how > can we pack openstack and vmware into a single solution? what kind of > customer need such as solution? > > Compete with VMWare seems to be the right choice, openstack has a great > advantage in price and community. People may say vmware features are still > better, but we just need some more time to catch up. This is just my > opinion. > > from Peter > > >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 09:13:13 -0700 >> CC: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Openstack] [Spam] Re: what is the meaning to alliance with >> VMWare? > >> >> Excerpts from Peter Cheung's message of 2013-07-29 07:29:10 -0700: >> > 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. >> >> Hi Peter. I understand that at times, sales negotiations can be like war, >> with your client being the innocent bystanders caught in the middle. >> >> But markets are not war-zones. Wars intrinsically expend >> resources. Markets, however, grow resources and make things more >> efficient, until they are outmoded, and then they shrink naturally. >> >> So looking at VMware as a combatant on the field of battle, they are >> intimidating and evoke fear. I would not want to do battle with this >> well trained highly motivated battle group. >> >> If, however, we look at VMware as neighbors, the feelings are different. I >> believe that they're really just interested in developing the huge >> untapped resources which are basically unavailable to them without the >> cooperation and lower cost model of projects like OpenStack. >> >> To use an analogy, if VMware is FedEx, OpenStack is "people who want >> efficient roads and airports." >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack
