Citrix Walks Away from OpenStack, Moves to Apache CloudStack

"Dholakia also claimed that OpenStack does not support the Amazon APIs, which would make for a compatibility challenge. In his view, OpenStack is interested only in establishing its own set of cloud APIs as opposed to working with existing industry specifications. OpenStack executives, however, disagree.

"We have had Amazon compatibility since the beginning," Jonathan Bryce, chairman of the Project Policy Board for OpenStack told InternetNews.com. "In the most recent OpenStack release, there were about 150 contributions to the Amazon APIs from 24 developers. So it's definitely a part of OpenStack that is alive and well."

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