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Which Cloud System Is the Most Open?

Posted by Soulskill on from the does-a-silver-lining-need-gaps-to-be-open dept.

1sockchuck writes "In a landscape with dueling open clouds, which is the most open? Cloud software specialist Eucalyptus sees pushing boundaries of openness as an opportunity. 'We're extending our open model into professional services,' said CEO Marten Mickos. 'Anyone can look at the source code, training material, documents that go around the code, everything. We realize that our competitors will look at it, but we're happy to offer it to the world in order to better the product.' The open cloud arena is becoming more competitive with the growth of OpenStack, CloudStack and OpenNebula, 'There are a number of reasons we are making this shift, but the most important one is culture,' Eucalyptus said in a blog post. 'If we truly are an open source company, does it make sense for us to develop closed-source intellectual property, tightly control access to that information, and use it primarily as a way to drive direct business unit revenue?' What lies ahead in the Open Cloud Wars?"

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  1. Re:Not Them by gishzida · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh the irony here... um... why does Win8 want to have you login to the "Microsoft Cloud" to authenticate you?

      BING-Doh! You have just been monetized.

  2. In the cloud by buchner.johannes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    you pay for the service. So it doesn't matter if someone 'steals' your code, as long as you can provide a better service. And by better I mostly mean reliable.

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    NB: The message above might reflect my opinion right now, but not necessarily tomorrow or next year.
  3. Re:Not Them by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Microsoft has proven to be a trustworthy company since the 70s.

  4. I'm insulted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    With slashdot's 15+ year history, coming here and reading trolls this transparently bad is frankly an insult. Whoever wrote this should be ashamed. Is this your very first troll? Did you just discover this site and say "hey this looks easy, I'm not even going to try"? Please.

  5. OwnCloud by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Your OwnCloud is.

    http://owncloud.org/

    -americamatrix

  6. Eucalyptus openness by Dishwasha · · Score: 3, Insightful

    One of the reasons I went with OpenNebula a while back instead of Eucalyptus is the third-party modules (i.e. VMWare) were open source in OpenNebula and proprietary in Eucalyptus. Granted it's been over a year since I looked so they may have changed that.

    1. Re:Eucalyptus openness by martenmickos · · Score: 3, Interesting

      We believe in Linux, KVM and Eucalyptus - all production-ready open source software freely available to anyone. Just download and get going. - If you have chosen to use closed source software like VMware's, then as Dishwasha points out there are commercial plug-ins available for Eucalyptus.

      Marten Mickos
      CEO, Eucalyptus Systems

  7. Which is the most open cloud? by fyngyrz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cumulous, I think. This is because they tend to build vertically, leaving space one from another.

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    I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
  8. Re:The canonical answer is: your own. by node+3 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That is the cloud you operate yourself. You have less control over anything else and there's no reason not to do this.

    Except for price, convenience, time, maintenance, reliability, expertise...

    For most people, "less control" is a worthwhile tradeoff.