{"id":649,"date":"2011-05-10T09:44:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T16:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/upon2020.com\/?p=649"},"modified":"2011-05-10T09:46:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T16:46:23","slug":"ubuntu-openstack-eucalyptus-when-open-source-competes-with-open-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/ubuntu-openstack-eucalyptus-when-open-source-competes-with-open-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu, OpenStack, Eucalyptus: When Open-Source Competes with Open-Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ubuntu project today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20110510006281\/en\/Ubuntu-project-transition-Ubuntu-Cloud-OpenStack\">announced<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;that future versions of Ubuntu Cloud        will use OpenStack as a foundation technology.<\/p>\n<p>Eucalyptus will continue to be a available        for download and will be supported &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>but also:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ubuntu will provide tools to automate the migration process to the        Ubuntu Server 11.10 release when it is released in October 2011.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/ubuntu.com\/\">Ubuntu<\/a> just switch allegiance from Eucalyptus-backed <a href=\"http:\/\/eucalyptus.com\/\">Eucalyptus<\/a> to Rackspace (and many others)-backed <a href=\"http:\/\/openstack.org\/\">OpenStack<\/a>. A &#8220;fork&#8221; in the road for sure. (although strictly speaking not in code; they never were the same.)<\/p>\n<p>Eucalyptus continues to confuse me: how does this help their mindshare? Wouldn&#8217;t the most logical thing have been for them to join the OpenStack project as a premier supporter from the very beginning, and carve out a niche in a much larger ecosystem? Their business proposition somehow continues to be &#8220;we have the better open-source technology for building private clouds compared to all the other technologies&#8221; instead of &#8220;we are the right commercial backers of the private cloud you want to build and bring together all the best technologies for doing that, don&#8217;t worry about that, we do that for you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The cloud API wars continue &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ubuntu project today announced: &#8230;that future versions of Ubuntu Cloud will use OpenStack as a foundation technology. Eucalyptus will continue to be a available for download and will be supported &#8230; but also: Ubuntu will provide tools to automate the migration process to the Ubuntu Server 11.10 release when it is released in October&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[160,512,88,119,159],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud","tag-canonical","tag-cloud","tag-eucalyptus","tag-openstack","tag-ubuntu","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}