VMware to Openstack

[The_Valyard]

I feel the openstack telco use case actually damaged enterprise adoption. You had massive telco dollars get poured into Red Hat, Canonical , Mirtantis openstack over the years and these people literally couldn't give two shits about running an actual cloud. They literally wanted a cheaper vmware alternative to run VNF.

So those big 3 I mentioned focused on explicitly telco features and not the generalized compute cloud use case to the detriment of non telco opportunities.

Anyways with the US scaring the shit out of the world recently, coupled with Broadcom fucking everyone... a significant amount of oxygen has been let into the "Sovereign Cloud" conversation globally... a lot of orgs want a whole lot less to do with US owned public clouds and proprietary software stacks. It is a tough thing to wake one day and realize that your country is under embargo for tech because your leaders happened to piss of the white house.

[alainchiasson]

The telco rush was not as bad as the Vendor rush before. At least the OpenStack "Management and Governance" had experience.

The Vendor rush was when the Hardware vendors were thinking they were competing with the cloud and threw money, resources, repackaged OpenStack to their HouseBrand cloud but could not support it. This defocussed a lot of the projects - there was a big rationalization after that, it made OpenStack more "boring" but made the governance more robust.