OpenStack To Crack Down On Incompatible Clouds

itwbennett writes "OpenStack is calling shenanigans on companies that call their services OpenStack but aren't truly interoperable. (HP, Rackspace, we're looking at you.) Josh McKenty, CTO of Piston and an OpenStack Foundation board member said that the board has 're-fired up' the interoperability working group, and though he admits it will take some time before the hammer falls, he called out HP and Rackspace as two offenders: 'Neither of their public clouds could be called OpenStack under current interoperability guidelines,' he said. For their part, HP has denied the claims, while Rackspace said in a blog post that it is on track for interoperability by the end of the year."

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[maxwell demon]

Well, I assume that OpenStack is a trademark owned by the OpenStack Foundation. Therefore the OpenStack Foundation has the right to grant or deny others to use that trademark.

I guess they have clear guidelines for the conditions on when you may use the trademark (if not, it's about time). Those conditions certainly should include an exact specification of the APIs which have to be supported.

Ideally they'd release a test suite, and anything that passes the test suite may be called OpenStack, while anything that fails may not. That would be a simple, objective criterion.