Cloud Computing: Eucalyptus Open Sources Services & Training

February 10, 2013 Off By David

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Maureen O’Gara.

Eucalyptus, the open source private cloud platform partnered with Amazon to give people hybrid clouds, has found selling support and professional services, the usual way an open source company makes money, isn’t working as a business because would-be customers are too tight-fisted.  As a result it didn’t grow as much as expected last year.

So it’s regrouping. It’s open sourcing its services and training, CEO Marten Mickos said, to focus on its product business, where it’s seeing early indications of large cloud implementations and the potential for a big business thanks in part to its alliance with Amazon, whose APIs are the recognized cloud standard…

Initial contracts brought in $50,000-$100,000 apiece, he said. Amazon is helping a bit, but Eucalyptus is doing most of its own lead generation. Consulting contracts, evidently few and far between, averaged around $20,000.  For those who don’t ask Eucalyptus is saying that it believes it needs to be "wide open" to get back to the true philosophy and roots of open source that puts "open" above dollars…

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