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To put it another way, I question if any startup should be using OpenStack today if OpenStack does not immediately solve the needs that startup expects to solve
by ewindisch 12y ago
To put it another way, I question if any startup should be using OpenStack today if OpenStack does not immediately solve the needs that startup expects to solve in the future. That's especially true for DIY. I'm speaking as consumers of OpenStack, of course, not for companies building value on it.
If OpenStack doesn't solve the startup's future needs right now, the startup's future need will come sooner than the features needed in OpenStack. Contributing upstream will have too great an opportunity cost. The only legitimate options for such companies are not to use OpenStack or maintain their own fork.
Right now, at the rate of innovation and improvement currently in OpenStack and the processes necessary for participating in the community, I'd argue that if a startup consuming OpenStack has resources to dedicate toward upstream development and baby-sitting that process, that they're either A) Not a startup, or B) a failing startup.
- geoffarnold 12y agos/OpenStack/customLinuxKernel/ No startup should be rolling their own cloud, any more than they should be putting together their own Linux kernel. Go public, or if you MUST be on your own metal, use a turnkey solution like Metacloud or Nebula (and let them manage it for you).