Re: OpenStack (and the 2013 Master the Mainframe Contest)

2013-10-07 Thread zMan
Phew, sorry, I missed that you were being sarcastic too. I really should have checked -- I remember thinking Wow, I didn't expect that from HIM! -- which should have been a clue! On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 10:03 PM, David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com wrote: I was being sarcastic Timothy! I thought

Re: Openstack

2013-10-06 Thread David Crayford
On 6/10/2013 2:56 PM, Shane Ginnane wrote: Interesting that VMWare don't see Openstack as an option (competitor) for the enterprise, despite them also investing in it. quote VMware invest in rockstar developers and do very well from it. GoPivitol must be the biggest startup in history. The

Re: Openstack

2013-10-06 Thread Shane Ginnane
mouthed all the politically correct things re Openstack APIs in vSphere, but I got the impression they were basically just covering bases. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: Openstack

2013-10-06 Thread David Crayford
(at least) an attendance perspective. VMWare mouthed all the politically correct things re Openstack APIs in vSphere, but I got the impression they were basically just covering bases. Now that's a surprise considering they've just formed a multi-billion dollar competitor which is the biggest start

Re: Openstack

2013-10-06 Thread Mark Post
On 10/6/2013 at 03:04 AM, David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com wrote: The word is that OpenStack is years behind similar technology used by the likes of Amazon, Rackspace, Google. You might want to leave Rackspace out of this list, since they and NASA are the two original creators of

Re: OpenStack (and the 2013 Master the Mainframe Contest)

2013-10-06 Thread David Crayford
I was being sarcastic Timothy! I thought that was obvious but in future I will remember to use a smiley or use sarcasm tags. I do know a thing or two about open source on z/OS. On 7/10/2013 9:34 AM, Timothy Sipples wrote: David Crayford opines: I can't see OpenStack ever taking off on the