[ Thanks to Amy
Bennett for this link. ]
“First, some good news for one of the competitors, OpenStack:
the subsidiary division of RackSpace announced a partnership with
Dell and Canonical to start offering Ubuntu-based OpenStack private
clouds in the U.K., Germany, and China.“But this good news may be overshadowed by other news that could
make potential customers think twice about deploying with the
OpenStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) product.“First, and perhaps most significantly, there was the
announcement today that Amazon Web Services has formalized their
relationship with Eucalyptus Systems to offer AWS-compatible
private cloud stacks. I say “formalize” because this is something
that Eucalyptus has pretty much been doing anyway? but, as with
most things related to Amazon and their APIs, there was always the
concern that Amazon could take their marbles and go home, leaving
Eucalyptus and other services that depended on those APIs high and
dry.“The is something major vendors will do from time to time:
instead of working with a partner company, they will just buy that
company (or a competitor) and incorporate that company’s products
within its own offerings–instantly shifting a service like AWS
from partner to potential competitor. “