Piston Unveils “The Last OpenStack You’ll Ever Try”
March 3, 2014
Grazed from IT-TNA. Author: Steve Wexler.
Calling it the last OpenStack you’ll ever try, the new release of Piston OpenStack 3.0 has been generating a lot of controversy, if not interest. Unveiled last week, it had to compete with sub-Arctic weather, RSA security conference, Mobile World Congress, the Winter Olympics and Russian brinkmanship in the Ukraine.
Then there was the little misunderstanding that saw Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. uninvited from next month’s Red Hat Summit, and a couple of hours later re-invited again, with an apology. Apparently somebody at Red Hat was unhappy with Piston because a Fortune 100 customer decided to change vendors. It seems that enterprise customers, never mind REALLY BIG enterprise customers, are hard to come by…
“It’s a clear show of fear,” said Piston CTO and co-founder Joshua McKenty in an emailed statement to The Reg moments before Red Hat did a 180. “They aren’t winning any customer deals against us now, and I don’t think that makes them very happy.”
He added it’s “ironic because we’ve sponsored VMworld in the past, and we’ve won awards there and we compete with them. And VMware isn’t even an open company and Red Hat is suppose to be.”…
Read more from the source @ http://it-tna.com/2014/03/03/piston-unveils-last-openstack-youll-ever-try/
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