Marten Mickos defends honor of Ubuntu’s Koala food

“Marten Mickos – the former MySQL chief executive who now
heads build-you-own-cloud outfit Eucalyptus Systems – has
defended the Eucalyptus platform against recent criticism of both
its “open core” model and its ability to scale beyond a relatively
small number of servers.

“His comments come as Eucalyptus releases a new incarnation of
its open source platform, which exists alongside the company’s
for-pay enterprise platform. Version 2.0 of the open source
Eucalyptus is designed to, yes, improve the platform’s ability to
scale.

“”We have improved scalability on the front-end and the
back-end,” Mickos says. “We aim to improve transactional
scalability as well as resource scalability.” The new version also
supports virtio, a virtual I/O Linux framework, and iSCSI targets
for Elastic Block Storeage (EBS) volumes, a much requested
feature.”

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