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Seems like a great fit! I saw a talk given at HeavyBit from Marten Minks about Open Source Business models. Really good stuff. http://blog.heavybit.com/blog/20

• praneshp 12y ago
  On Quora, the Eucalyptus CEO was once a big openstack critic. He slowly seemed to mellow down, and finally seems to have joined the other side :)
  • dmourati 12y ago
    Openstack is struggling and this acquisition is a huge shot in the arm for Eucalyptus. I think he did quite well.
    • bretpiatt 12y ago
      By what measure is OpenStack struggling?
      • hkarthik 12y ago
        In the startup world, it's definitely struggling. But I think it's doing far better in Enterprises that are building private clouds. When a startup is faced with setting up a complicated OpenStack environment versus just using AWS, it's a no brainer to go with AWS. For an established enterprise, it's a different decision. They often have lots of legacy applications, enterprise apps like Oracle/SAP, etc that can't just go right on AWS without issue. For them, Private Cloud vendors selling interoperable solutions on top of OpenStack are very attractive.