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Gartner: OpenStack Lacks Clarity

Posted by Unknown on from the perils-of-developing-outdoors dept.

An anonymous reader writes with a quick bite from El Reg: "The OpenStack open-source project has come in for criticism from a Gartner analyst because the claims made by companies frequently don't line up with reality. In a forthright post published on Tuesday Gartner analyst and research director Alessandro Perilli chided the OpenStack community for a lack of clarity, lack of transparency, lack of vision, and lack of pragmatism." An OpenStack developer disagrees, and instead suggests that the perceived lack of clarity is just a result of the open development process. You just don't get to see which Amazon cloud projects fail since they are hidden behind the corporate wall.

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  1. Re:Company claims don't line up with reality? by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Gartner "study" disparages product competing with study's funder? Shocked! Simply Shocked!

  2. Funded by by Havokmon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Gartner is nothing more than a PR company for whoever pays for their 'analysis'.

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    "I can't give you a brain, so I'll give you a diploma" - The Great Oz (blatently stolen sig)
    1. Re:Funded by by Havokmon · · Score: 4, Insightful

      While I agree with your point, I have to also agree with a few of the points Gartner's analyst made. Ever try to implement OpenStack? Some things are okay (Virtual Machines), but other things are horribly convoluted (Virtual Routing). Version upgrades break previous functionality, and documentation is lacking so finding what actually broken requires lots of time and effort. Waiting for the documentation to catch up is fine until you need a feature or bug fix in the latest version.

      I'm not claiming that it's horrible mind you, but rather pointing out that it needs some time to mature. Gartner's opinion does not mention the fact that OpenSource products like this can do very well (Apache, Linux, MariaDB/MySQL). At the same time, enough OpenSource projects fall off the Earth to have some concerns.

      "A lie is best placed between two truths."

      Gartner always makes some valid points. They are masters of manipulation.

      While it sounds like you're well-informed, the majority of their followers are not and I would go so far as to say those people, even when reading the details presented within, rarely truly understand the content.

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      "I can't give you a brain, so I'll give you a diploma" - The Great Oz (blatently stolen sig)
  3. Re:What's not clear? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Gartner is a well-known Microsoft shill. Is this really a surprise? Who wants to bet they'll be recommending Azure next?

  4. Re:Gartner lacks intelligence by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Typical techie response which lacks insight into the needs of the rest of the world...

    Not that I am defending Gartner - they are a marketing company which publishes positions based on who has paid them money - but the whole "just get the source code and ..." thinking demonstrates a basic lack of understanding for the rest of the world. It is just as bad and just as myopic as Gartner is.