Comments on: What role does open source play in cloud computing innovation? http://gigaom.com/2012/09/22/what-role-does-open-source-play-in-cloud-computing-innovation/ Tue, 21 May 2013 22:24:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: David Mytton http://gigaom.com/2012/09/22/what-role-does-open-source-play-in-cloud-computing-innovation/#comment-1016387 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:11:38 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=565556#comment-1016387 Open source cloud projects do lower the barrier to some degree but variety and choice could become a problem. Open source projects are often built to address the original author’s needs so it’s a challenge to make sure that a broader market is addresses, if the goal is to compete with the big public clouds or other open source cloud providers. This is perhaps the key difference between internal projects vs the likes of CloudStack, OpenStack, etc.

Eucalyptus is an interesting one because it is built by a commercial company as an open source projects whereas something like OpenStack has the non-profit OpenStack Foundation as the primary driver. I wonder how that would affect the decision to choose a particular project.

]]> By: Ignacio M. Llorente http://gigaom.com/2012/09/22/what-role-does-open-source-play-in-cloud-computing-innovation/#comment-1015769 Mon, 24 Sep 2012 21:48:15 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=565556#comment-1015769 Miha, thanks for your comment. In our case, user definition includes any organization building a cloud infrastructure. We are happy to have many users that actively participate and contribute to the project. Users, like RIM, China Mobile, Logica, Akamai or FermiLab, are active contributors to the software. It is great to see how they contribute innovative features from their production environments. However most of our users are only interested in building a cloud and do not participate in the project, they compare OpenNebula with other cloud management platforms, both open-source and proprietary. We receive valuable feedback from many organizations outsize the open-source community. Moreover, and thanks to our participation in several research and infrastructure projects, we also incorporate innovative features that will be required by our users in a longer term.

]]> By: miha http://gigaom.com/2012/09/22/what-role-does-open-source-play-in-cloud-computing-innovation/#comment-1014142 Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:22:30 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=565556#comment-1014142 You write: “In open source projects, the actual project roadmap is driven by user needs. That means features will meet real end-user — as opposed to vendor — needs” This is true, if the definition of a customer is someone who participates or follows an open source project. The customer definitions (Archetypes) must include those outside open source communities, to reach real success (Red Hat, Cloudera, are such examples).

]]> By: plerudulier http://gigaom.com/2012/09/22/what-role-does-open-source-play-in-cloud-computing-innovation/#comment-1012621 Sat, 22 Sep 2012 20:59:09 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=565556#comment-1012621 Reblogged this on Things I grab, motley collection .

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