Totally agree that the best response is to show a great cloudstack release. I do sympathize with the guy though, because Gartner could do the same to cloudstack. The reason they haven't is because cloudstack isn't in the limelight like openstack is recently. Gartner apparently has a bunch of uninformed, trigger happy CIOs asking Gartner if they should stop paying for VMware.
Speaking with actions is best, but I did post a response to his response, because I felt he missed the point on some things (namely context). Not that it will get a lot of traction or hits, but it makes me feel better :) http://learnitwithme.com On Oct 13, 2012 12:39 PM, "Rohit Yadav" <rohit.ya...@citrix.com> wrote: > Touché David! World's a big place for all the opensource IaaS projects and > we can make CloudStack more audacious with some positive writings and blogs. > > From today HN top posts: > http://zachholman.com/talk/product-is-the-byproduct > "Worry about building the damn thing; worry less about the damn thing"; > start from slide 63 :) > > Looking forward to planet, and 4.0. > > Regards. > > > ________________________________________ > From: David Nalley [da...@gnsa.us] > Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2012 10:41 PM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Cc: cloudstack-us...@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: What Gartner can't - or won't - tell you about OpenStack Cloud > > Hi folks: > > So a couple of comments. > I appreciate the level of passion seen in this thread - it tells me > that people love CloudStack. That said, open source projects competing > among themselves is almost always fruitless. The world is large enough > for two, three, or more open source IaaS projects. (Just like the > world is big enough for PostgreSQL and MySQL; Red Hat, Ubuntu, SLES, > Slackware, and others.) In short, this project's goal is not to beat > OpenStack. The goal is to be a useful, stable, community-led > Infrastructure-as-a-Service open source project. > > When you see articles that contain misinformation, it's perfect > acceptable to provide corrections. It's also important to catch what > they see as legitimate defects - file those as bugs, and lets correct > them. Far more valuable though, IMO, is that we spend our time doing > the the following two things: > 1. Testing, fixing, and documenting Apache CloudStack so that it is > the best IaaS platform available. (Have you tested the latest 4.0.0 RC > builds?) > 2. Telling the story of how/why we use CloudStack (notice I didn't say > why it's better, or why it beats $foo project) > > To that end, John Kinsella has been working with Apache Infrastructure > to get an Apache CloudStack planet setup where we can aggregate such > blogs, so watch for updates on this front and consider aggregating > your blog there, but don't hesitate to start blogging now :) > > --David >
