Technically speaking, I agree that it's a not a single solution and can be flexible. That said, it fundamentally presumes VMs, attachable disks, and networks as "the objects that matters" for your cloud. It's a good assumption for now, but maybe not for 5 years from now.
My post was mostly about the funding and political context that is driving OpenStack momentum, and its similarity to past attempts for vendors to gang up and try to take on the market leader (AWS). The community is all about the vendors, currently. Users are growing, but still the minority. And that's a warning sign, because it may mean the users really just don't care as much as the investors in OpenStack think they will.
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Technically speaking, I agree that it's a not a single solution and can be flexible. That said, it fundamentally presumes VMs, attachable disks, and networks as "the objects that matters" for your cloud. It's a good assumption for now, but maybe not for 5 years from now.
My post was mostly about the funding and political context that is driving OpenStack momentum, and its similarity to past attempts for vendors to gang up and try to take on the market leader (AWS). The community is all about the vendors, currently. Users are growing, but still the minority. And that's a warning sign, because it may mean the users really just don't care as much as the investors in OpenStack think they will.