Supporters attack Jie abandon OpenStack cloud Platform

The senior coordinator for the OpenStack project attacked Jie for abandoning the open source cloud deployment platform and starting to support another open source software project based on Apache licenses.

With this change, the Cloudstack platform for cloud services is now an open source software project for the Apache Software Foundation, which accepts input from the developer community. Some people view this as the first shot in the open source software cloud war. Lydia Leong, analyst at Gartner, a marketing research firm, Lidia Liang the message in the blog as an "explosive event." OpenStack executives today responded to Jie.

OpenStack, co-founder and Piston Cloud founder Choshua Mckenty (Joshua mckenty), said the move is a "marketing game." Since Jie last year announced the acquisition of 200 million dollars to develop the Cloudstack platform cloud.com Company, Si Jie has been faced with the use of it to do something many of the pressure. McEntee added that he was not surprised by the Jie's move, as it has been reducing support for Crosby since the acquisition of Cloud.com and the departure of Simon OpenStack, the company's former chief technology officer in charge of the cloud sector.

The bigger problem, McEntee says, is the conceptual difference between the two projects. ' They need a platform to support Amazon Web services, ' executives said in a conference call held yesterday (April 2). They think OpenStack does not support Amazon's Web services platform.

However, Jonathan Braisse Jonathan Bryce, chairman of the OpenStack Policy Management committee, and another founder of Rackspace, said it was a misconception that OpenStack did not support Amazon Web services. The Amazon application programming interface is compatible with OpenStack computing and object storage projects. In the Thursday release of Cloudstack Essex, Bryce noted that more than 20 of the developers contributed more than 140 code. All of this code will improve support for the application programming interfaces of Amazon Web Services in OpenStack. "Compatibility is a feature of OpenStack," says Bryce. But, he said, we don't want to be an Amazon clone.

Another major reason for Jie to provide Apache licenses for Cloudstack is that they want the product to be marketed faster. OpenStack executives said they were satisfied with the movement's progress.

McEntee says OpenStack has no other way to develop faster. He noted that the development of a virtual network project code-named "Quantum" had less than a year and some progress in the Cloudstack Essex release.

McEntee says there are some conceptual differences between the projects. He believes that Si Jie to develop a community around its xenserver management system. OpenStack will continue to support various management procedures. McEntee is not worried about OpenStack's support for losing the Xen management program. He noted that Rackspace used the Xen management program. In this way, their developers will continue to support this management program in OpenStack. However, it is normal for some users to be worried about losing support for some type of management program. The upcoming OpenStack Essex release will no longer support Microsoft Hyper-V servers and hypervisor.

There are also some differences in the code used to write software. Cloudstack is written in Java, and OpenStack is written in Python.

Overall, says Bryce, the move will bring some competition between OpenStack and cloudstack, as they overlap in functionality and are both Open-source software cloud platform projects. However, Bryce is confident that OpenStack will continue to be a strong community development effort. There are dozens of companies and full-time employees who are developing OpenStack projects. That's a powerful contributor.

McEntee that the strength of the OpenStack community is a major differentiating factor between these two projects. OpenStack is a predominantly community-driven project, and it is difficult for any company to drive the project alone. OpenStack to be what more than 150 companies want it to be. Jie is the only major contributor to Cloudstack. As a result, they are still large and influential participants. He called Cloudstack "a community of companies."

Top executives disapprove of the statement. The top executives at the press release showed a slideshow of more than 20 companies supporting Jie. These companies include Juniper Networks, NETAPP, Rightscale, Brocade, Alcatel-Lucent, Engine Yard, Zenoss, BT, Tata, Go Daddy and SoftLayer.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)