Can Red Hat Do For OpenStack What It Did For Linux? 118
Brandon Butler writes "Red Hat made its first $1 billion commercializing Linux. Now, it hopes to make even more doing the same for OpenStack. Red Hat executives say OpenStack – the open source cloud computing platform – is just like Linux. The code just needs to be massaged into a commercially-hardened package before enterprises will really use it. But just because Red Hat successfully commercialized Linux does not guarantee its OpenStack effort will go as well. Proponents say businesses will trust Red Hat as an OpenStack distribution company because of its work in the Linux world. But others say building a private cloud takes a lot more than just throwing some code on top of a RHEL OS."
NIST definition - Cloud computing (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Show what an inferior OpenStack might look like (Score:4, Informative)
I am sure that your company policy should include "do not use Technology preview on production servers". If it doesn't, then I suggest to add it, and then complain that using RHEL do not have the packages you need, if you want to switch to Debian. That would be much more smoother. than trying to blame the vendor for your lack of clue regarding what is supported and what is not ( especially when comparing to Ubuntu, where you do not even have the guarantee that Mark will not change his mind and just stop the project, or focus it on something else, like they did on the desktop, on bzr, and several stuff )
Re:Will it be as broken as Fedora? (Score:4, Informative)
You can try openstack on Fedora, or look at RDO ( http://openstack.redhat.com/Main_Page [redhat.com] ).
And Fedora is as broken as the community make it broken. If there is no one to make bug reports, triage them, make QA, then yeah, this slip. There is lots of way to help on this part, from giving karma to update testing and testing prerelease.
"technology preview" not for production use (Score:4, Informative)
What part of "...these features are not fully supported under Red Hat Enterprise Linux Subscription Level Agreements, may not be functionally complete, and are not intended for production use." didn't make sense?
Why were you using a technology preview feature in production when they explicitly say not to?
Re:Break things that used to work? Sure (Score:2, Informative)
This post is so full of misinformation it's ridiculous.
RH dismissed OpenStack in a recent conference call? That seems kind of odd seeing that they are contributing heavily to it now, and Red Hat Summit was just last week where they, you know, didn't dismiss it.