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So what is their business model? I'm happy they open sourced the project, but they have to make money somewhere to remain a viable business. The article was u
by gvb 15y ago
So what is their business model? I'm happy they open sourced the project, but they have to make money somewhere to remain a viable business. The article was unsatisfactorily vague about how VMware is going to make money off the project.
- smokinn 15y agoThe article wasn't vague. It explicitly pointed out that there's no business model at all yet: Maritz says VMware doesn’t have a concentrate plan for making money from Cloud Foundry. “A leap of faith,” he calls it. I imagine the obvious business model though is to position themselves as the world experts on this platform and provide hosting and support to enterprise customers that would rather pay a premium for peace of mind as opposed to startups that would shop around for the cheapest option.
- danmaz74 15y agoFor one, this puts VMWare in a very good light with engineers who might have to choose a VM platform, just as with Redis. I confess that I generally like Google because they gave away a lot to the community, this can work for VMWare too. Kudos to them :)
- rwmj 15y agoI wouldn't assume that VMware have to make money off this project directly. It's enough that they keep customers locked into their eye-wateringly expensive hypervisor (which Cloud Foundry is built on). It's like asking why is Internet Explorer free ... because it traps businesses into requiring Windows on their desktops to run all those pesky IE6-only webapps.
- jvoorhis 15y agoVMware's hypervisor is solution for running CloudFoundry on a private cloud, but at AppFog we are operating CloudFoundry on AWS, with ongoing work to support other public clouds.