Comments on: Despite growth in open source, commercial solutions still dominate http://research.gigaom.com/2011/07/despite-growth-in-open-source-commercial-solutions-still-dominate/ Thu, 05 Mar 2015 18:27:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: Paul Miller http://research.gigaom.com/2011/07/despite-growth-in-open-source-commercial-solutions-still-dominate/#comment-1324 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:03:28 +0000 http://pro.gigaom.com/?p=75588#comment-1324 Hi Wendy. Thanks for this. Part of the advantage of having commercial vendors get on board to offer their own take on the underlying OpenStack code is that we may well find early adopters simply buying an OpenStack solution from their existing vendor for other things?

I’ll personally be interested to see how far each of these commercial offerings seeks to differentiate itself through value added services that don’t modify the code, and how far they differentiate by actively adding code that’s unique to themselves. And *if* Citrix (for example) adds significant tweaks to their own flavour of OpenStack, will the consultants I’ve hired from Cloud Builders (for example) refuse to touch it?

]]> By: wendyperilli http://research.gigaom.com/2011/07/despite-growth-in-open-source-commercial-solutions-still-dominate/#comment-1323 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:29:05 +0000 http://pro.gigaom.com/?p=75588#comment-1323 Paul, good story- wish this was public so the discussion could be had with others. What I find interesting about OpenStack is it’s not “opensource” like Redhat- it’s an ecosystem play loosely held together by the hope of vendors that people will adopt this way of buying. It’s not a platform that the development community is building against, it’s a grouping of offerings that commercial vendors are building against. So it will be interesting to see if Dell and Citrix plan to offer this ( with their own value add ), just as you mention above, who will support it ( rackspace or the commercial provider ). I personally think it feels like these offerings will stall adoption as IT staff to figure out what it all means- again. And as you say, determine what opensource is okay within IT and where it isn’t okay. Your question of the week is right on target! Can’t wait to hear the results.

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