Comments on: Morphlabs’ OpenStack cloud to arm service providers against Amazon

By: Yoram Heller

Yoram Heller — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:44:50 +0000

I would argue that is in fact three ecosystems. VMware occupies the private cloud and AWS is the de facto public cloud standard.

There was always going to be an open source alternative to both. Speaking from experience as a co-founder of Morphlabs, we though Eucalyptus was going to be the O/S alternative. However, due to several reasons that are too long to list here, they screwed it up.

OpenStack has the flexibility and scale to be an alternative to both VMware and AWS, as well as the most vibrant community and most business friendly licensing.

Ultimately, OpenStack is a foundation technology. The question right now is who will become the vendor that productizes it and simplifies the deployment so 1000s of clouds can bloom

By: David Mytton

David Mytton — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:33:28 +0000

I wonder how the likes of http://onapp.com/ will compete with companies that build around the open source alternatives. Open source has a clear advantage because you can always sever the connection with the commercial vendor you started with, depending on how different their fork is.

That said, MorphLabs sounds like a new proposition but it’s really just the old school open source business model – take an open source product, add support and your own twist on part of the product then sell it on. It’s worked well in the past but I wonder if that’s limited to the company that creates the original product.

By: Tal

Tal — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:04:22 +0000

I recommend reading this link as I found it useful.
http://blogs.gartner.com/lydia_leong/2012/04/06/ecosystems-in-conflict-amazon-vs-vmware-and-openstak/
Its really two eco-systems fighting here. And usually open-source is just a complementary strategy – either as a solution for private cloud when on the Amazon side, or a public cloud when on the VMware side.