Fujitsu CTO: Analysts might think we're 'crazy', but OpenStack here we come

FWIW

I replaced some Novell Netware servers with Linux in 1997 using NCP at first (later Samba). OpenStack is MUCH further along than Linux was back then, IMO.

Also, I wish the author would expand on the scalability limitations. Are you talking about limitations in the Horizon UI or with the system itself?

Fujitsu numbers in OpenStack community

At least the numbers from Fujitsu contribution to OpenStack as community member are clear:

http://activity.openstack.org/dash/browser/company.html?company=Fujitsu

They are contributing more and more, and started as many other, asking questions in the mailing lists 1.5 years ago. It's a typical pattern, people from the company start asking questions in the mailing lists, then they start to review issues, and last they start to contribute through regular code review process...

If you need more data, you can always ask for reports to Bitergia (http://bitergia.com), they produce the ones for OpenStack Foundation: http://activity.openstack.org/dash/reports/

Its hard

OpenStack is not easy, not by a long shot, my favourite saying is:

"I can tell you 500 hundred ways NOT to install and configure OpenStack, and maybe 5 on how to successfully install and configure OpenStack" the community documentation seems detailed, but it is woefully inadequate. The AIO distributions will get you up an running very well, but you get no idea how things are plumbed together and they compromise the value of OpenStack and "do it yourself". Canonical "may" be an exception to this but I suspect not.

Its darn'd hard so I think Fujitsu, HP, Mirantis, are all on the right trajectory, but... until it gets "Vmware" piss simple to install and configure AND maintain then the adoption is only for those with deep deep pockets. Then again honestly who actually NEEDS a private cloud opposed to visualization with a level of automation?