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I have a few old colleagues that are(were?) working on IaaS powered by OpenStack stuff at Cisco. I can only assume they were working on this. I hope they get to

• perlgeek 10y ago
  If not, I'm sure there many companies building private cloud projects that would welcome OpenStack experts with open arms. (My employer would hire such folks too, but you'd have to be willing to move to Germany).
  • CalRobert 10y ago
    What's the talent pool like in Germany? I looked at moving to Germany for a while and it seemed pretty strong. I'm in Ireland now but the companies I've worked for have all had German representation in engineering.
• anacleto 10y ago
  It's a pity. CISCO has great engineering skill - it's lousy exec play that caused the problem.
  • yesplorer 10y ago
    how did you know it's lousy exec play that caused the problem? Amazon is heavy with their advertising and this have a huge mindshare with potential customers and even non-customers alike. No amount of extraordinary exec play would have changed that in favor of Cisco. Cisco was dedicating $1 Billion to the project, AWS made $2.5 billion in Q1 2016. Think of that for a second
    • gruturo 10y ago
      > Amazon is heavy with their advertising and this have a huge mindshare with potential customers and even non-customers alike. No amount of extraordinary exec play would have changed that in favor of Cisco. Actually - Amazon is now an established brand name even in the corporate/enterprise execs' minds, but Cisco used to be way more famous and trusted than Amazon until recently. They've never been the cheapest or first to market, but their stuff works well enough and their support is good, esp. if you have the patience to first go through the mostly useless level 1 and 2.