Comments on: Eucalyptus rakes in $30M, keeps open cloud battle interesting http://gigaom.com/2012/04/18/eucalyptus-rakes-in-30nnfor-its-cloud-effort/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:45:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Eddie http://gigaom.com/2012/04/18/eucalyptus-rakes-in-30nnfor-its-cloud-effort/#comment-832504 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 03:21:42 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=511941#comment-832504 > “Some people think that large corporations’ membership in a foundation
> is a sign of success, which it isn’t.

Yes! Absolutely! Just look at how Sun / Oracle fubar’ed Java. Larry Ellison stated under oath in court this week that he doesn’t know if Java is “free” or not. Ha! The OpenJDK, should we call it “OpenJoke”? IBM, SAP and Apple have signed the OpenJDK TCK license to ensure their implementations of “Java” conform to Larry Ellison’s reference. OpenJDK is just a “community” with no organized Foundation. OpenStack, if it actually gets its Foundation organized correctly (observe Apache and Mozilla Foundations) will then at least be ahead of OpenJDK such that a decade or two from now we’re not observing a trial courtroom battling it out about cloud APIs!

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