On 2015-10-24 12:44:04 +0530 (+0530), Venkatesh Kotipalli wrote: > Still now lot of confusion* What is the difference between cloudstack and > openstack ?* > any body know please please share important points.
The most important difference to me: when CloudStack emerged into the open and was no longer simply the proprietary platform for VMOps/cloud.com, it was done under an "open core" model where some of it was still kept proprietary. This severely stunted the growth of any cohesive developer community around their platform. By comparison when NASA and Rackspace opened up the seeds of what is now OpenStack (a couple months later), it not only released the full working code bases for those projects but also went with an open development and design model and began work to transfer any original intellectual property assets to a forming nonprofit foundation. In the world of free software, community inertia is almost everything and far outweighs any relative differences in maturity of a code base, quality control, or feature set. This article from a few years ago when Citrix, who eventually acquired cloud.com, relicensed and donated CloudStack to the Apache Foundation, outlines what they recognized then as remaining deficiencies in openness (but in my opinion was an unfortunate matter of too little too late): <URL: http://buildacloud.org/blog/125-cloudstack-process-changes-working-the-apache-way.html > -- Jeremy Stanley _______________________________________________ Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack
