| That's very interesting in hindsight! I don't think those so called AWS zombies ever were zombies or made a dent in AWS' adoption or success, it's more like the other way around. He may have been on to something, but I think Jim just wanted to promote his own "open standards" and company. Eucalyptus' CEO (Mårten Mickos) moved on to HP Cloud (big Openstack deployment) which closed a year after that because they were not competitive. HP currently (try to) also sell Eucalyptus to enteprises precisely because of its AWS compatibility, so they're trying to make money off AWS basically. Rackspace is nowadays also managing AWS for customers, so making money off AWS as well. Openstack continues to be the under-used and over-developed darling of all big virt players; at least it appears to be building some standards of sorts so there's that. Cloudstack's users were never big on AWS, in fact the API compat module was almost deprecated and it's now a separate project that gets little attention and usage; along with other 3rd party API implementations. Cloudstack - as well as other private cloud projects out there, are doing just fine, suiting the needs of it's users and developers who - shockingly! - do not need or want to use AWS or other public providers, enabling them to run their own infra, whether private or public. My 2 pence. Disclaimer: Cloudstack community member and committer |