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VMware To Join OpenStack Foundation

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the welcome-to-the-club dept.

hypnosec writes "OpenStack Foundation, backed by virtualization players like Rackspace, Red Hat and IBM, is going to get a unexpected new member – VMware. According to a post on the OpenStack Foundation Wiki, the agenda of the Board of Directors meeting on August 28 includes the Gold membership of VMware as one of the topics. VMware is not the only one applying for Gold membership as Intel and NEC are also standing in line for their memberships as well."

6 of 41 comments (clear)

  1. Political mess? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    With so many conflicting interests how long until the project starts spinning in place?

  2. Will VMWare donate their patents? by Picass0 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    VMWare's membership is a great opportunity to plant poison pills that can be later exploited to shut down any development originating from this partnership. I would hope Openstack has obtained usage rights in exchange for their membership.

  3. An interesting commentary by thePowerOfGrayskull · · Score: 3, Insightful

    An interesting and relevant commentary on OpenStack;

    https://gist.github.com/3456841

    1. Re:An interesting commentary by vlm · · Score: 4, Insightful

      He misses the point that in

      How do you commercialize

      the easiest way to commercialize is to hand hold and support and project manage.

      Selling a proprietary virtualization empire is, in the long run, about as likely to succeed as writing a text editor, so going all "IBM" and moving into services might be a pretty wise move for vmware.

      --
      "Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
    2. Re:An interesting commentary by LordLimecat · · Score: 2

      Selling a proprietary virtualization empire is, in the long run, about as likely to succeed as writing a text editor

      You mean like Microsoft Office, which at its core has a glorified text editor that is one of the cores of Microsoft's profitability? Or how about an OS (for anyone whos read "In the Beginning was the Command Line")?

      If VMware can keep up innovation, and can fix some of its licensing issues, I dont see why they could not have a long future in selling a "virtualization empire".

  4. Deceptive wording by Eravnrekaree · · Score: 2

    Since when should VMware be associated with anything involving the word "open"? Its a closed source, proprietary product that takes away users freedom to be able to modify and understand what it is doing on their system. At least as a part of all of their licences, give users the access to source code under a non-redistribute licence.

    Virtualbox is a much better choice, which I recommend supporting financially. You can trust developers more that is upfront and honest with its code, rather than hides it as if it has something to hide.