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April fools? It seems like an awfully poor way to do business for such a company to just go under without any advance notice. But then what are the company's cu

by j_baker 12y ago

April fools? It seems like an awfully poor way to do business for such a company to just go under without any advance notice. But then what are the company's customers going to do? Go somewhere else?

freehunter 12y ago
Well if it's just OpenStack, or if it's software built on top of OpenStack, it's fully possible to migrate to another OpenStack vendor. Then again, that supposes the product is open source.
- count 12y ago
  That also pre-supposes that openstack implementations are interoperable.
- moderation 12y ago
  Nebula was coupled with hardware that included a bundled Arista switch [1]. The hardware provided additional security features. (TPM etc.) So it might be hard to switch to another Openstack vendor from a stack so tightly bound to hardware. 1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/Print/2011/07/27/nebula_openstack_cloud_controller/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/Print/2011/07/27/nebula_opensta...
- stonogo 12y ago
  https://twitter.com/bcantrill/status/552551004114534403 https://twitter.com/bcantrill/status/552551004114534403
frostmatthew 12y ago
> April fools? It's possible, but if it were I wouldn't expect them to tweet that it's true[1]. [1] https://twitter.com/NebulaInc/status/583388942294097920 https://twitter.com/NebulaInc/status/583388942294097920
Sanddancer 12y ago
April 1 is also the beginning of a new business quarter. Could very well be that they were looking at the quarterly finances, and decided not to continue running a sinking ship.
vishvananda 12y ago
Most definitely not April fools, just terrible timing. Source: I was Nebula's CTO.
- old_stacker 12y ago
  I'm very sorry to heard that, but still I hope yourself and your team continue working with cloud computing, ideally OpenStack ;)
- batbomb 12y ago
  That's unfortunate. I just saw you at SLAC a few weeks ago. I was literally logging into the nebula about 10 minutes before I read this, helping out my boss with something. I told him, but we weren't sure if this was April Fools or not.

by j_baker 12y ago

April fools? It seems like an awfully poor way to do business for such a company to just go under without any advance notice. But then what are the company's customers going to do? Go somewhere else?

freehunter 12y ago

Well if it's just OpenStack, or if it's software built on top of OpenStack, it's fully possible to migrate to another OpenStack vendor. Then again, that supposes the product is open source.

count 12y ago
That also pre-supposes that openstack implementations are interoperable.
moderation 12y ago
Nebula was coupled with hardware that included a bundled Arista switch [1]. The hardware provided additional security features. (TPM etc.) So it might be hard to switch to another Openstack vendor from a stack so tightly bound to hardware. 1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/Print/2011/07/27/nebula_openstack_cloud_controller/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/Print/2011/07/27/nebula_opensta...
stonogo 12y ago
https://twitter.com/bcantrill/status/552551004114534403 https://twitter.com/bcantrill/status/552551004114534403

frostmatthew 12y ago

> April fools? It's possible, but if it were I wouldn't expect them to tweet that it's true[1]. [1] https://twitter.com/NebulaInc/status/583388942294097920 https://twitter.com/NebulaInc/status/583388942294097920

Sanddancer 12y ago

April 1 is also the beginning of a new business quarter. Could very well be that they were looking at the quarterly finances, and decided not to continue running a sinking ship.

vishvananda 12y ago

Most definitely not April fools, just terrible timing. Source: I was Nebula's CTO.

old_stacker 12y ago
I'm very sorry to heard that, but still I hope yourself and your team continue working with cloud computing, ideally OpenStack ;)
batbomb 12y ago
That's unfortunate. I just saw you at SLAC a few weeks ago. I was literally logging into the nebula about 10 minutes before I read this, helping out my boss with something. I told him, but we weren't sure if this was April Fools or not.