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Re: OpenStack immaturity

 

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Razique Mahroua
<razique.mahroua@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> The "immaturity" being exposed here has nothing to do with neither
> stability nor bugs - in fact the angle is more about an ease of deployment.
> Such statements are not new, and well known from "enterprises" point of
> view.
> I remember same articles about Linux, few years back about Zimbra, few
> months back about proxmox, etc...
>
> This is an endless statement : "Is it possible for a community-driven
> project to find it's place in business needs ?" The answer for Openstack is
> NO, when it comes to ease of deployment compared to VMmware, and any
> CLI-less required installers...
> But even if fantastic progress has been made, on the different projects,
> let's face it, even more progress are required today to give a satisfaction
> to the OP.
>
> Let's keep working as we are doing : fixing, testing, thinking, updating.
> When all the projects will be stable enough to work on a same level - I'm
> quite confident we could see more positives feedbacks from Gartner
>
>
> *Nuage & Co - Razique Mahroua** *
> razique.mahroua@xxxxxxxxx
>
>
> Le 4 avr. 2012 à 14:48, Jacek Artymiak a écrit :
>
> It depends on what you expect OpenStack to do for you. If you want
> pre-packaged, click-to-install software, it is not there, yet. But if
> you want to be able to influence the future of the project you want to
> bet your business on, you have a much higher chance of doing that with
> OpenStack than with other projects in this space.
>
> Just my $.02 worth.
>
> Jacek Artymiak
> author:
> http://docs.openstack.org/api/openstack-compute/programmer/content/
> (please submit patches so we can improve this document)
>
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Sébastien Han <han.sebastien@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
>
> According to the statement of this article from Gartner
>
> group
> http://blogs.gartner.com/lydia_leong/2012/04/03/citrix-cloudstack-openstack-and-the-war-for-open-source-clouds/
>  Openstack is a
>
> highly immature platform.
>
> But why? What's make Openstack so immature?
>
>
> Any comments on that?
>
>
> Thank you in advance :)
>
>
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